Re: Linksys WRT54G acts like a dumb hub, no DHCP or wireless capabilities

Billy Bob wrote:
I have a very similar situation as Richard (text below). I have had a WRT54g for about 2 years. I have a PC and laptop connected wirelessly to the router. I have a Vonage box and an XBOX connected to the router with Ethernet cables. Everything worked great for the past 2 years.

Then last week I could no longer "hold" a wireless connection. Both the laptop and the PC would lose connection with the router. After plugging the laptop into the router with an Ethernet cable, I checked all the settings. Everything including security seemed as I had originally set it. I figured the router had fried and went and bought the same model.

Brought home the new WRT54g and set it up. Configured it with all factory defaults to start with just to make sure all was working ok. Well, the results are the same: I can connect to the wireless network, but after about 10 minutes I will lose connection with the router. I have to click on the Wireless Network Connection icon in the task bar, click on my home network, go to the advanced tab, then exit. The Wireless Network Connection will then find my linksys network and connect to it. But then 10 minutes later it loses connection again.

Same problem with 2 routers on 2 different computers. I can't seem to find the common denominator that is causing the problem. I have the same telephone system, no blue tooth accessories, no new hardware in the house, etc. And since the problem occurs on both my laptop and PC,(which are located in 2 different rooms), it is really hard to pinpoint.

Thanks for any ideas.

Robin


Tony Hwang wrote:

Jerry Park wrote:

Richard52 wrote:

I have a Linksys WRT54G 4-port with wireless that has been working for
a couple of years when all of the sudden the wireless stopped working.
In addition I noticed that the one computer that is connected via the
ethernet cable now gets a DHCP address assigned directly from my ISP
instead of one of those 192.168.1.x addresses the router is supposed to
assign. I tried holding the reset button down for 10 seconds and the
power light blinks but this does not correct the problem. I don't know
what firmware is in their (probably the original) because I haven't had
to mess with it since I set it up the first time.

So what it looks like now is that I have a dumb hub in that ethernet
ports 1 to 4 can all talk to each other and in turn they can all talk
to the cable modem that is plugged into the WAN ethernet port but I
can't get the router to assign a DHCP address or do wireless. I tried
hard coding 192.168.1.50 into my computer and point my web browser at
192.168.100.1 and 192.168.1.1 (as one of those is the admin config
screen) but it doesn't seem to be serving up the admin web page either.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Richard

Ten seconds is not enough the reset to factory defaults. Hold the reset button 40 seconds.

After that, if you can't access the web interface and it is not sending a wireless signal, I suppose it is dead.


Hi,
Also make sure the power adapter is in good shape.
Hi,
Any possibility of new source of interference.
Tony
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