Hi Dave, a few things. First, flash a new Firmware on right away. You're oprobably experiencing lockups in the code. I use both tomato and dd-wrt. Tomato is a bit more stable and dd-wrt is a bit more feature packed, both are excelent. Also, do check out open wrt. Now if you flash to dd-wrt, tomato or open-wrt you'll be able to boost the output power (the linksys is shipped to run at 40 MW from the factory but can boost up to 200) note though you don't want to go much above 50%, you could burn out the transmitter or over heat. You can next overclock the processor to help improve the forwarding rate again boost up say 3 or 4 clicks in the combo box. The new Operating systems include QOS and lots of other functions including making the device a client, bridge or repeater. That aside, other things to try are using channel 1, 4, or 8. There is a wierd sequencing and that can overlap but using the lesser known channels can help assuming nobody near by is using that channel as part of their spread spectrum. Also, does this happen when you use your microwave? Microwaves if they leak will cause this behavior. On the linksys you really want to use WPA instead of WPA2 unfortunately. True to Cisco's business model they under power the hardware. Hope that helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <dave.mehler@gmail.com> To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:13 PM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] wireless router occationally dropping signal Hello, I've got a 2wire 2701 dsl modem. I've got it in bridged mode since i don't like it's dhcp or firewall abilities so it's wireless nat and other features are off, it's a bridge only. Behind it and serving my network is a Linksys wrt54g2v1 wired and wireless router. It's using the Linksys supplied firmware 1.0.01 although 1.0.03 is out i'm not yet decided to update to that or to a linux firmware package called dd-wrt. Does anyone have this particular router and using either the linksys 1.0.03 or the dd-wrt linux firmware? The problem i'm trying to solve is that occationally the wireless router either drops signal or something interferes with a machine's receiving of it, i haven't figured out which. When this occurs the box needs a power off, wait a second or two, then a power back up it'll usually get it back then. Question, is there a speech-friendly way to determine signal strength in bars of your router and another router not on your network, this is in xp? I've got another one, the machine in question picks it up with only one bar, and dropped a signal. Now it could be either the one bar other network, maybe we're on the same chanel, i have already switched from 6 to 11, or my refrigerator which is in almost perfect line between the machine in question and the router. Moving the machine isn't doable, moving the refrigerator obviously isn't, moving the router might be. I'm not sure if this is causing my occational signal drop, it doesn't happen all the time. I'm just guessing. Any assistance appreciated. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins