Frequent Disconnects on a Motorola WR850G

recently purchased a Motorola WR850G (V3 which I upgraded to firmware
5.13)) to replace a trusty old Siemens Speedstream 2624 (V1) wireless
router. The main reason for the upgrade was to go from 802.11b to
802.11g. Ever since I have installed this new router I have had a lot
of disconnects. Whenever a disconnect event occurs I run a site survey
tool and it shows that my router is gone (rebooting?). NetStumbler
shows that it is there but the signal is intermittent (on for a few
samples then off, then on again). I cannot connect to the router for a
few minutes, then it will suddenly be OK. It seems that the problem
occurs more often at night time (I'm not sure why that has anything to
do with it--maybe because it gets more use at night?). At first I
thought interference was causing the disconnects. A site survey from my
client and from the router show 4 routers in range on channels 6, 7, 11
and 11. I am on channel 1 so I should be OK as far as other routers
causing interference. I never had these problems with the Seimens
router (that thing was very reliable). Has anyone else with a WR850G
had these kinds of problems? If so, were you able to fix them? Any
suggestions for debugging this problem?

Wireless Clients:
USB Motorola WU830G (Windows WZC)
PCI Xterasys XN-2523G (Vendor's config tool)

Both clients show the same disconnect problems.
The WR850G router is OpenWRT compatible, but I'm not sure I want to open
that can of worms. I like having a nice GUI to set my router settings.

Just some thoughts:

Any chance of a neighbor using a wireless phone?
Checked for driver/firmware updates?
Tried another channel even though you are alone on ch1?
Power fluctuations in the house?


"Bryant Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:d9q2dd$63o$(E-Mail Removed)...
> recently purchased a Motorola WR850G (V3 which I upgraded to firmware
> 5.13)) to replace a trusty old Siemens Speedstream 2624 (V1) wireless
> router. The main reason for the upgrade was to go from 802.11b to
> 802.11g. Ever since I have installed this new router I have had a lot of
> disconnects. Whenever a disconnect event occurs I run a site survey tool
> and it shows that my router is gone (rebooting?). NetStumbler shows that
> it is there but the signal is intermittent (on for a few samples then off,
> then on again). I cannot connect to the router for a few minutes, then it
> will suddenly be OK. It seems that the problem occurs more often at night
> time (I'm not sure why that has anything to do with it--maybe because it
> gets more use at night?). At first I thought interference was causing the
> disconnects. A site survey from my client and from the router show 4
> routers in range on channels 6, 7, 11 and 11. I am on channel 1 so I
> should be OK as far as other routers causing interference. I never had
> these problems with the Seimens router (that thing was very reliable).
> Has anyone else with a WR850G had these kinds of problems? If so, were
> you able to fix them? Any suggestions for debugging this problem?
>
> Wireless Clients:
> USB Motorola WU830G (Windows WZC)
> PCI Xterasys XN-2523G (Vendor's config tool)
>
> Both clients show the same disconnect problems.
> The WR850G router is OpenWRT compatible, but I'm not sure I want to open
> that can of worms. I like having a nice GUI to set my router settings.

Charlie wrote:
> Just some thoughts:
>
> Any chance of a neighbor using a wireless phone?
> Checked for driver/firmware updates?
> Tried another channel even though you are alone on ch1?
> Power fluctuations in the house?
>
>
> "Bryant Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:d9q2dd$63o$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>> recently purchased a Motorola WR850G (V3 which I upgraded to firmware
>>5.13)) to replace a trusty old Siemens Speedstream 2624 (V1) wireless
>>router. The main reason for the upgrade was to go from 802.11b to
>>802.11g. Ever since I have installed this new router I have had a lot of
>>disconnects. Whenever a disconnect event occurs I run a site survey tool
>>and it shows that my router is gone (rebooting?). NetStumbler shows that
>>it is there but the signal is intermittent (on for a few samples then off,
>>then on again). I cannot connect to the router for a few minutes, then it
>>will suddenly be OK. It seems that the problem occurs more often at night
>>time (I'm not sure why that has anything to do with it--maybe because it
>>gets more use at night?). At first I thought interference was causing the
>>disconnects. A site survey from my client and from the router show 4
>>routers in range on channels 6, 7, 11 and 11. I am on channel 1 so I
>>should be OK as far as other routers causing interference. I never had
>>these problems with the Seimens router (that thing was very reliable).
>>Has anyone else with a WR850G had these kinds of problems? If so, were
>>you able to fix them? Any suggestions for debugging this problem?
>>
>>Wireless Clients:
>> USB Motorola WU830G (Windows WZC)
>> PCI Xterasys XN-2523G (Vendor's config tool)
>>
>>Both clients show the same disconnect problems.
>>The WR850G router is OpenWRT compatible, but I'm not sure I want to open
>>that can of worms. I like having a nice GUI to set my router settings.
>
>
>

I suppose it could be interference from wireless phone, but why would it
affect one router and not the other? I have updated all of drivers and
firmware (where possible). My current line of thought is unstable
firmware in the router or one of the clients. If I do a long file
transfer from a wired computer to a wireless computer (in otherwords
lots of constant use), the connection will every 10 minutes or so.
Under minimal use it can go hours without problems.

There is an outside chance it could be a hardware issue also but I tend to
agree it's probably firmware.
"Bryant Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:da1rno$epi$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Charlie wrote:
>> Just some thoughts:
>>
>> Any chance of a neighbor using a wireless phone?
>> Checked for driver/firmware updates?
>> Tried another channel even though you are alone on ch1?
>> Power fluctuations in the house?
>>
>>
>> "Bryant Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:d9q2dd$63o$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>> recently purchased a Motorola WR850G (V3 which I upgraded to firmware
>>> 5.13)) to replace a trusty old Siemens Speedstream 2624 (V1) wireless
>>> router. The main reason for the upgrade was to go from 802.11b to
>>> 802.11g. Ever since I have installed this new router I have had a lot
>>> of disconnects. Whenever a disconnect event occurs I run a site survey
>>> tool and it shows that my router is gone (rebooting?). NetStumbler
>>> shows that it is there but the signal is intermittent (on for a few
>>> samples then off, then on again). I cannot connect to the router for a
>>> few minutes, then it will suddenly be OK. It seems that the problem
>>> occurs more often at night time (I'm not sure why that has anything to
>>> do with it--maybe because it gets more use at night?). At first I
>>> thought interference was causing the disconnects. A site survey from my
>>> client and from the router show 4 routers in range on channels 6, 7, 11
>>> and 11. I am on channel 1 so I should be OK as far as other routers
>>> causing interference. I never had these problems with the Seimens
>>> router (that thing was very reliable). Has anyone else with a WR850G had
>>> these kinds of problems? If so, were you able to fix them? Any
>>> suggestions for debugging this problem?
>>>
>>>Wireless Clients:
>>> USB Motorola WU830G (Windows WZC)
>>> PCI Xterasys XN-2523G (Vendor's config tool)
>>>
>>>Both clients show the same disconnect problems.
>>>The WR850G router is OpenWRT compatible, but I'm not sure I want to open
>>>that can of worms. I like having a nice GUI to set my router settings.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I suppose it could be interference from wireless phone, but why would it
> affect one router and not the other? I have updated all of drivers and
> firmware (where possible). My current line of thought is unstable
> firmware in the router or one of the clients. If I do a long file
> transfer from a wired computer to a wireless computer (in otherwords lots
> of constant use), the connection will every 10 minutes or so. Under
> minimal use it can go hours without problems.