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jepeters · 12-01-2008, 09:06 PM

If you were following from my posts the latter half of November, you know I had problems with some wireless routers in our school. We bought some new ones, and I thought I had everything working--at least things were fine for the first few days.

But now, all 3 of the Linksys Wrt54G routers that I configured need to be unplugged for a minute or so, and then plugged back in again in order for them to work. They went out on Wednesday, and we didn't have school since then, but I had to unplug them again today to get them going.

The laptop that I was working on tonight said that it was getting a strong signal, and it was even getting a legitimate IP address for out school. But it wouldn't connect to our domain server or the Internet. I unplugged the router and plugged it back in, and everything was fine. Also, these routers seem to be preventing us from getting a connection to any of the other routers that are normally within range. Once I unplug one of the bad routers, I can get connected to the next nearest router.

I must have set something up wrong when I configured the routers. It's the first time I've tried to do it, and I was just making an educated guess. Evidentally, I missed something. Any guesses as to what I need to change?

12-01-2008, 09:06 PM	#1
jepeters Member (10 bit) Join Date: May 1999 Location: Cando, ND USA Posts: 641	Now a different Linksys problem If you were following from my posts the latter half of November, you know I had problems with some wireless routers in our school. We bought some new ones, and I thought I had everything working--at least things were fine for the first few days. But now, all 3 of the Linksys Wrt54G routers that I configured need to be unplugged for a minute or so, and then plugged back in again in order for them to work. They went out on Wednesday, and we didn't have school since then, but I had to unplug them again today to get them going. The laptop that I was working on tonight said that it was getting a strong signal, and it was even getting a legitimate IP address for out school. But it wouldn't connect to our domain server or the Internet. I unplugged the router and plugged it back in, and everything was fine. Also, these routers seem to be preventing us from getting a connection to any of the other routers that are normally within range. Once I unplug one of the bad routers, I can get connected to the next nearest router. I must have set something up wrong when I configured the routers. It's the first time I've tried to do it, and I was just making an educated guess. Evidentally, I missed something. Any guesses as to what I need to change?