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Had to go into the room where it was kept and recycle it, a real nuisance.disconnect the power cord and wait for about 20 seconds before plugging it back in. They appear identical but they're not.A housemate originally installed his WRT 54G and we routinely had dropped internet connections, usually at least once a day. When the housemate moved out, he left the router; didn't want it back.I bought the model #WRT54GL after reading the mostly 5 and 4 star rated user reviews here at Amazon and have, so far, experienced smooth sailing.no dropped connections yet. .get the acclaimed Linksys WRT 54 GL instead. It's a different and superior animal - a much more competent and reliable performer.
I bought this about a year ago to upgrade from my netgear 802.11B router. Also, with my WinXP machine there was an issue coming out of hibernation. My old router only did WEP64. I almost never had to restart it because it had dropped my connection.
It doesn't matter what windows clean ups i perform (flushing dns, disabling wireless adapter and including restarting the machine) If i simply power-cycle the router, i am able to connect to it. Each time I had to "repair" the adapter. I can imagine that it might be a WinXP driver issue, but I've had similar experiences with a newer Vista Laptop and in Linux as well (on both the older and newer laptops), so i highly doubt that it is a laptop hardware / driver issue.There is also an issue when i use VPN to connect to my office machine. So overall, i have a fairly low opinion of this product. I don't know what interaction with the router might be, but after I disconnect from the VPN, i lose wireless network connection. I wanted the higher throughput (54mbps) and liked that it did WPA.
I never had to do this with my netgear router and the same Win XP laptop. I think I'll stick with netgear in the future. I really liked my netgear router because it had good range and once i had it setup, it was rock solid. With the WRT54G, however, I have to frequently power cycle it to have my laptop sync up to it.
Linksys has lost me. I couldn't understand a lick of the so-called English the guy in India tried so hard to speak and his bottom line was that it was a very old model (3.5 years) and he couldn't help me without my paying $29.95 to extend the warranty. Right. Until today, my WRT54G has performed well, although I do recall initial configuration woes. I find it highly suspicious that it would just decide to die in its sleep. pau. Anyway, 6 months after the warranty. I go to use it after it had the night off and nothing.
When I do this I have to re-enter in all my security info.I don't have problems other than that. The only way I can fix it is to perform a hard re-boot by pressing in the reset button for 10 seconds. It does have the capability to block out certain web sites.Overall, this isn't a bad unit, though I am in the market for another because of the frustration I am having with locking out the internet. I have owned this router for about a year and it usually works. I do have problems with it not allowing me on the internet at times.
Reception has been quite good given the fact that I live in a pre-fab house whose walls are made of concrete and rebar.4. Was able to configure and use in 2 minutes after hookup.3. Would recommend to anyone. 1. Hassle free and easy to install2.
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