Linksys keeps logging off HELP!!!

Hi. My kids (75 miiles away) live with their Mom and I wanted to set them
up with a network so each child has their own computer and internet
connection. Here's the facts.

The ISP is cable.

Computer A is in the cellar with the computer modem and the linksys router.
By the way the router is the BEFW11S4. Computer A has CAT5 cable going to
port 1 on the built in switch. Computer A has no problems

Computer B is on the main floor of the house and Computer C is located on
the 2nd floor of the house. Both B and C are wireless. B is only able to
stay logged on for a max of about 15 minutes. Sometimes only for a minute
or two. C has the same problem but from time to time manages to stay on for
as long as an hour. This drives them crazy as they use AOL messenger to
chat with their friends, and often their friends will leave a note on the
messenger and of course as soon as it logs off and then on again, the note
is gone. I'll sit here in my house and see them logging in and out of
messenger constantly.

Computer A and B are running Windows XP Pro. Computer C is running Win98.

When the wireless computers are on the internet they're great. Nice and
fast and everythings fine. But then they'll just log off.

It's like there's an inactivity timer. I saw mention of one for DSL, but we
don't have DSL. Is there one for cable? They can be away from their
computers for hours at a time.

Anyone else have thisi problem? I'd really like to be able to help them
out.

Thanks a lot
Jim

I had very much the same problem you are describing. I had the exact same
wireless router you had. My laptop would connect up for no more than 15
minutes or so. If I would go into the router configuration screen and make a
change, any type of change (i.e. channel) my laptop would log on and
boom....15 minutes later it would log off. And my problem included not only
would it log me off, I couldn't get logged back on until I would go into the
config. mode and make a change. So, I took my Linksys router back and
exchanged it for a D-Link. My laptop works flawlessly so far with it. I'm by
no means trying to say D-Link is better. Honestly, I think I just got a bad
router that for whatever reason was resetting itself every 5 to 15 minutes.
But it may be worth your time changing routers and seeing what happens.

I've been having the same problems. I have a WAP11 access point and
teh WUSB11 NID, both from Linksys. I also have a IBM ThinkPad with a
built in wireless card. The computer and laptop will connect, but
they drop the connection after a while, plus they do not connect to
the wireless signal automatically. You have to connect each time. If
I have something open that consdtantly connects to the internet. Like
news.google.com which updates itself every 5 minutes or so, then it
seems to stay connected. Its frusterating to re-connect everytime I
come back to my computer.

One weird thing is that I dont think it is losing an IP, just the
internet. I can usualyl still see the other computers on my network
and even remote into them, but I have to reconnect to the wireless
network to get a web page ? ?

SC



"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<pcvVa.45274$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> I had very much the same problem you are describing. I had the exact same
> wireless router you had. My laptop would connect up for no more than 15
> minutes or so. If I would go into the router configuration screen and make a
> change, any type of change (i.e. channel) my laptop would log on and
> boom....15 minutes later it would log off. And my problem included not only
> would it log me off, I couldn't get logged back on until I would go into the
> config. mode and make a change. So, I took my Linksys router back and
> exchanged it for a D-Link. My laptop works flawlessly so far with it. I'm by
> no means trying to say D-Link is better. Honestly, I think I just got a bad
> router that for whatever reason was resetting itself every 5 to 15 minutes.
> But it may be worth your time changing routers and seeing what happens.

I have noticed that liksys waps are sensitive to 2.4g wireless phones
and stop networking until call is complete, but never caused a log off
that I know of.


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> I had very much the same problem you are describing. I had the exact same
> wireless router you had. My laptop would connect up for no more than 15
> minutes or so. If I would go into the router configuration screen and make a
> change, any type of change (i.e. channel) my laptop would log on and
> boom....15 minutes later it would log off. And my problem included not only
> would it log me off, I couldn't get logged back on until I would go into the
> config. mode and make a change. So, I took my Linksys router back and
> exchanged it for a D-Link. My laptop works flawlessly so far with it. I'm by
> no means trying to say D-Link is better. Honestly, I think I just got a bad
> router that for whatever reason was resetting itself every 5 to 15 minutes.
> But it may be worth your time changing routers and seeing what happens.