[mhuie]

Wifi router is a WRT54G, latest firmware (factory)

I have been noticing that my PB 17" and also my MBP is killing my router (ie. no internet even on wired connections). The router needs a complete power cycle to come back.

Sometimes it happens while I'm surfing, sometime while it I am not at the computer. The router does not "crash" when those two units are asleep.

I am positive that both do is as I remember my pb17 did it before I got my macbook and lately I have not used my pb and have had other wireless clients on my network and no issues in the past 3 months.

The day i got my MBP within a few minutes of joining my wireless network, it killed the router and every day since then I have had to unplug the router several times a day.

I have tried WPA, WEP, security off with MAC filtering and same issues. Is it the airport card or my router? I have at least 5 other wireless clients work perfectly with my router... Windows notebooks, my Nokia 770, Squeezebox, etc. Only when the mbp or pb is on the network does my router die.

[ghporter]

Which hardware version of the WRT54G do you have? It's possible to try EARLIER versions of the firmware to see if they might help; the big problem here might simply be that, as sometimes happens, Linksys' new firmware doesn't work properly.

Have you tried seeing how the two computers work when plugged in by cable? Turn off their AirPort cards and see if they surf satisfactorily while connected by wire. If they do, that tells you that the problem is with the wireless section, and would give us some more info to think on.

[mhuie]

Originally Posted by ghporter

Which hardware version of the WRT54G do you have? It's possible to try EARLIER versions of the firmware to see if they might help; the big problem here might simply be that, as sometimes happens, Linksys' new firmware doesn't work properly.

Have you tried seeing how the two computers work when plugged in by cable? Turn off their AirPort cards and see if they surf satisfactorily while connected by wire. If they do, that tells you that the problem is with the wireless section, and would give us some more info to think on.

I have a WRT54G v5. Theres only 2 firmware available for it, 1.00 and 1.00.06. Same issues with both.

I pulled out my WRT54G v4 w/ DD-WRT and it works fine.