Alright I know there are a few IT guys on this forum and plenty of people who know a bit about networking. Does anyone know what the problem is in either Vista or my router, that does not allow my computer to hookup to the internet. I have a desktop that is hard lined right to the router. and my wife has a laptop that uses the wireless. The problem is that everytime i want to connect to the internet on my computer I have to unplug and reset my router. I will have to do this after every time i either put my computer to sleep or restart/shut it down. A big PITA. If I skip the router and just hardline straight to the modem it works just fine everytime. Any info would help, sick of getting yelled at for not having a working wireless network by the wife. I am running Vista Ultimate and have a Belkin Wireless G MIMO router. Router = http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=203415 Thanks, Shaun
what kind of wireless card are you using? also, did you try updating to the latest firmware on the router?
Direct expereince with the Belkin routers leads me to believe it's the culprit. A firmware may help, or if the particular model can do it, flashing to openWRT or dd-WRT might allow you to continue to use it. If not, it could also be a failing power supply, though new power supplies cost nearly as much as a new router. My advice is to ditch the Belkin entirely.
Linksys is my suggestion for SOHO stuff. Demanding/high tech skill people might just be best off rolling their own with a base like m0n0wall or pfSense and some old hardware. But unless you're a geek with lots of stuff laying around (who, me?) it's more expense and definately much more complex. A brand new Linksys WRT54G can generally be had for $50 or less and they're a very mature, solid product.
+1 on ditching the router and purchasing a WRT54G. If you're wanting to save $50, you can try the firmware update, but you may just be wasting an hour of your time, as Vector said.
The Tomato firmware is nice if you run into limitations of the stock firmware, but for nearly everyone, the stock firmware will do more than they'll ever need.
Hey, I triend firing up tthe old VectorWorld server (dual P3-600E, 768M, 2U rack chassis) that was so kick ass back in the day, and it won't evensuccessfully boot Linux or FreeBSD anymore (was going to run pfSense and make it my router). Good old days, eh?
MMMMMM....... Tomato. I never relised how much my router slowed things up till I did this firmware change. As long as I don't have to reset my router every 3 days like with dd-wrt I will be a happy camper.:biggrin: Russ
