Hi everyone Im a noob here. I have a WRK54G wireless router with an Xbox hardwired to the back. I have an Acer laptop with built in wireless G and a pocket pc with wireless B. I am a fan of US baseball and subscribe to watch or lsiten to the games live over my 2mb cable connection. I tried streaming wirelessly to my laptop, but everytime I did it my Linksys router would crash before the stream started. When I say crash I mean that my internet connection would be dropped, I couldnt access any more sites, MSN messenger would logout and I would have to reboot my router to get connection back again. I tried wiring my laptop to the back of the router so that it had a 100mb connection but it was still doing the same. The only way I am able to access my streams is to directly connect my laptop to my cable modem and therefore disable to wireless router, kinda pointless getting it then. I spoke to Linksys who told me that the router cannot cope with the baseball stream at 350kb/sec and thats what is crashing the router. Does this sound right? If this is the case I need to find a way to connect my laptop and my router to my modem at the same time so that my laptop can have a hardwired connectio to the internet when I need it and when I dont I can run it over the wireless connection. Dont even know if this is possible. And advice or comments would be appreciated.
If you're router is having firmware 1.55.02, then you have no options AFAIK. If it is 1.58.03, there's a beta 1.58.00 to fix it.
as many i have a wrk54g, that crashes very often to. There is something funny going on with 'streaming' media. Seems the uPNP settings have something to do with it. Havent put my finger on it yet. I get the feeling if there are to many ports mapped, the FW blocks all access. a power off/on resolves the problem for a short time. Tried to downgrade the firmware, but it wont let me. So i doubt 1.58.00 wont do any good since im on 1.58.03
tested some things in combo with windows FW very unstable UPnP, manually added portrange forwarding for windows media player, seemed to do 'some' good. Also reduced the MTU to 1492 brought a longer 'up' time!
still went belly up, had a chat with their support, thay send me the 1.58.00 beta, its up and running for now.
still running, some minor interruptions, but didnt have to resart the router to get reconnected again. seems 1.58.00 is the way to go!
here is my workaround I used the last firmware posted last on this page and I did the following workaround, then it all worked for me: 1. I used static IP for the two wireless PCs I have on my network (they both run XP). 2. I used dynamic IP for the third PC which connects to the Ethernet port (which runs Vista). It is all working fine now. It seems to me that previously in my case the third PC was causing the router disconnects where I would need to reboot the router to get it working again. Now my guess is that either the problem is because of compatibility with Vista (or other OS's as others have reported on this page) or that the part of firmware code handling the Ethernet side does not work well with the part handling the Wireless side. I did not have the time to troubleshoot further but assigning static IP for the wireless stations and dynamic IP for the Ethernet station has somehow isolated the two parts of the network from each other. I did not change anything in the default setup for the DHCP addressing assignment and all addresses above the 192.168.1.50 address are used for dynamic IP addresses and I used the addresses below that for static address assignments (192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.20). Hope this helps you folks. I used the information on this thread a lot and thought to leave this note in case it may help others. Indeed, a very helpful thread to get my Linksys WRK54G working. Thank you all.
