Linksys Router prob - for the tech aware..

[dave_2A_2.25Turbo]

Anyone shed any light on this?

I use a LinksysWAG54G router on BT Broadband

1 x Wired connection

1 or 2 x wireless

All was fine for ages, but I now keep losing the internet connection - although it shows as being connected on the router, all PCs show 'server not found'.

I have found a way to regain the connection - if I access the router menu via the wired PC, display the DHCP Client table, and 'Release' any PCs shown, it cures the problem instantly.

Needless to say we're all getting pretty p##d off with this....

[Damonski]

I have the same one and has been on for about 4 months solid without a reboot never had a problem.

What firmware are you running?  Mines 1.01.03

Also check on Setup the Network Setup section lower down that page:

Client Lease Time:  0 minutes

[dave_2A_2.25Turbo]

mine was ok for months too.

client lease time has to be in the range 1 - 10080 (default is 1440). I'll try it on 1 and see if it makes any difference

firmware is 1.02.3

[H]

have the same model at work with the same problem usually find pulling the power adaptor out of the back and back in again so it reboots itself cures the problem too

H

[suzota]

My d-link system does the same.

Every month or so we have to pull out the power adaptor and it's fine again.

[sparkes]

set your pc to have a fixed IP address. If the router is 192.168.x.y then set the pc to be 192.168.x.(y+1)

Set the gateway on your pc to be the IP of the router
Set the primary DNS to be the IP of your router and the secondary to be the dns server of your ISP

Read the manual for your router and set the MTU to 1440 (bit difficlt to explain but it needs to be lower than the MTU of BT which I think is 1443)

that should fix it all up

Steve

[Damonski]

Mines says:

 Client Lease Time:  0     minutes (0 means one day)

[Inked_Raven]

1440 is the number of minutes in 24 hours.  So 1440 is 1 day.

I would recomend fixing your IP addresses like Sparkes has already suggested.