Power-cycling WR and Cable Modem

Hi,

I have a Linksys Wireless-B Router I have plugged into the Terayon
cable modem to create a wireless network in the house. However, every
time the laptop goes into standby, the wireless network disappears and
I have to turn power on and off for both the router and the modem.
Refreshing network list accomplishes nothing - the wireless network is
not there.

Any clues as to what's going on?

TristaSD wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Linksys Wireless-B Router I have plugged into the Terayon
> cable modem to create a wireless network in the house. However, every
> time the laptop goes into standby, the wireless network disappears and
> I have to turn power on and off for both the router and the modem.
> Refreshing network list accomplishes nothing - the wireless network is
> not there.
>
> Any clues as to what's going on?

Got the laptop on AC power? They go into power save/hibernation mode and
screw up when connected.. If on AC, set it to always stay on, if not (or you
want to try it to make sure/see) actually turn it off, and then back on
again allowing a full reboot.

"TristaSD" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>I have a Linksys Wireless-B Router

Neato. A guessing game. My guess is you have a BEFW11S4. Is that
correct? (Sherlock Holmes would be proud of me).

>I have plugged into the Terayon
>cable modem to create a wireless network in the house.

How many wireless and wired computers do you have?

>However, every
>time the laptop goes into standby, the wireless network disappears and
>I have to turn power on and off for both the router and the modem.
>Refreshing network list accomplishes nothing - the wireless network is
>not there.
>
>Any clues as to what's going on?

Well, if the laptop causes the wireless to disappear, then there must
be another wireless laptop in the system. (I'm sure doing great with
the deductions tonight).

I have three guesses(tm).

1. You have the Terayon cable modem plugged into one of the LAN ports
on the BEFW11s4 router. It will work that way, but only one client at
a time. I'll assume the client is running Windoze XP. A clue is to
run:
Start -> Run -> cmd <enter>
IPCONFIG
If the IP address is 192.168.1.xxx, then you have it correctly wired.
If it's a routeable IP from your cable modem ISP, then your wiring is
wrong.

2. Windoze network browsing requires a master browser, which might be
the first laptop. Turn it off and nobody can find the other machines
with the browser until a new master browser is selected with a master
browser election. The problem is that it takes 12 minutes for that to
happen. Try waiting.

Or just try connecting directly with:
Start -> Run -> cmd <enter>
\\name_of_other_machine
or
\\192.168.1.xxx (IP address of other machine)
Both these incantations should open a window with the list of
directories and files on the other machine.

3. You're running a peer to peer wireless LAN.


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Just one laptop on the network ...