Wired works, wireless doesn't (sometimes).

[Sparky Anderson]

I have a WRT310N, wired connections work flawlessly 100% of the time.

The wireless is a gong show. It will work for a few hours or days at a time, then I will still be able to see the wireless network with full signal strength but will not be able to connect to it. This happens to multiple laptops, iPod, PS3, etc... they will all lose the connection at the same time.

If I go upstairs and reboot the router, I can then connect wirelessly again with whatever device I wish. This is really annoying (especially hearing it from the wife when it stops working again). I'm about to go buy a new router again but I would rather save some money and the environment and just fix this problem once and for all.

 

[Emulex]

yeah wireless is the biggest sham ever.

i have 5 wifi in my house to get full coverage and every week or so i'll have to pop one of the AP's to reset them. Thankfully i have enough overlap to keep going.

i'd do this:
1. router -> old pc or NAS box or decent router (apple makes a nice $79 airport extreme on cowboom every other week). 64gb or 128gb of ram. disable wireless. disable all qos/etc. just nat
2. Switch -> gigabit switch to router- keep all switching off the router. trust me. a silicondust can easily take out the most powerful 240mhz ARM (lol) router there is.
3. AP -> router as AP - nothing else just doing AP role -not switching just AP. Verizon sells them for $10 shipped last time i checked. screw the N stuff -its a waste in a busy area - it just doesn't work with 20 other neighbors trying to rock the same. you end up with 29 or 65mbps at the end of the day.


that's about the truth. for everyone else - GIGABIT FLATWIRE 1MM - it's cheap and at 1mm fits just about anywhere.

 

[VirtualLarry]

My wireless, in a crowded neighborhood, has been pretty good. Netgear WNR834Bv2 refurb units with DD-WRT on them. Uptime was like 265 days, before I rebooted it after I got back from vaca. Ironically, that's when I started having a little trouble with my wireless. But I think that was because I was running an open AP on my main router, and forwarding any unsolicited traffic back to my inner router, and some a****le was running torrents on my open access point, bogging down my routers.
So, no more open access point. They abuse it, they lose it.

 

[gsaldivar]

Try this:

Log in to your router's config page and look for an option called uPnP and try turning it off. Post back and let us know if you notice any improvement.

Good luck!

 

[Sparky Anderson]

I disabled uPnP last night, I also updated the firmware. I had the latest for the longest time and they hadn't updated it for 2 years so I just stopped checking assuming they had moved onto other products. They released a new version in August so I loaded that on.

I will have to let it go for a few days and let you know how it goes.