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Router Woes
UnreadableHulk
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I just setup a NETGEAR WGR614v6 wireless router in my home and I'm having trouble maintaining my internet connection.
In roughly ten minute intervals my internet connection will go down for about 30 seconds to a minute. I get "Resolving Host" messages when browsing the internet and disconnect messages when playing online games. This affects both the PC I have hooked up and my iPhone.
My DSL connection does require a login and password, though it seems to connect just fine. I didn't have this issue before adding the router. I've updated the router firmware to the latest version. I've looked this problem up elsewhere with no luck.
In roughly ten minute intervals my internet connection will go down for about 30 seconds to a minute. I get "Resolving Host" messages when browsing the internet and disconnect messages when playing online games. This affects both the PC I have hooked up and my iPhone.
My DSL connection does require a login and password, though it seems to connect just fine. I didn't have this issue before adding the router. I've updated the router firmware to the latest version. I've looked this problem up elsewhere with no luck.
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I swapped to a Linksys and have near zero issues with my connections and I can have my 360 and pc in use at the same time.
My router kept losing the connection to the DSL modem until I flashed it with DD-WRT. Now it's 28 days connected without a single hitch.
It looks like there's no DD-WRT version for this particular router.
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Well there you go.
My DGL-4300 has been awesome *knock on wood* but its not sold anymore and the DGL-4500 seems to have major firmware problems. I just need to find him one thats stable and will go down a hallway (couple walls) to his living room. Doesn't even really need N since all his stuff (Wii, ps3, laptop) is G and his desktop would be wired. Just need rock solid signal strength for some light gaming and Netflix streaming.
Maybe the problem isn't the router . . .
My WRT54G is 4 years old and still works fine. The one I had before that worked fine, I just replaced it to jump to G speeds. I bought my mother some clearance Netgear model at Radio Shack 3 years ago, it still works. Wireless routers are pretty simple electronic devices, but like any other electronic device they can fail on day 1, day 100, or day 1000 for no apparent reason. Just buy whatever is on sale that meets your needs and take good care of it.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm looking through the Netgear forums for these threads but haven't been able to find them. Could you tell me what you searched for or link to the threads if you still have them?
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Echoing precious suggestions, I would start here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=73
Thanks for the suggestion. There's no option in the router setup specifically for DHCP timeout, but there is one that says "Idle Timeout" and that's set to 10 minutes. I'll look into setting those addresses manually.
It may be some kind of timeout issue though. When the interruption begins if I access the router settings page through a browser it seems to bring it back.
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Try upping the time out to something more reasonable or download some kind of keepalive background app that can ping every few mins to your dns local gateway address or somewhere. Forget the keepalive idea if you're billed for the amount of bandwidth used though.
It might be worth contacting your isp to discuss the speed of your re-connection too though, as 30 seconds is a pretty long time to get connected to a dsl link.
It's probably a case of the router attempting to connect over unsupported authentication protocols before getting it right at around the 30 sec mark.