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Linksys WRT160nv3 issues!! HELP!
I have Time Warner's Road Runner cable. I am using their leased modem, Toshiba PCX2600. I was using a Netgear wireless router for a long time. I didn't have many problems with it, except for the range. I decided to upgrade to Linksys WRT160nv3, and so far, I think I've made a big mistake. When I first got the router, I was using Windows Vista 32 Bit Home Edition, and it seemed to work fine for me. I now have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit and I am having some crazy issues with my internet connection. I rarely turn my computer off, so the only power setting I have enabled is for my monitor to turn off after 20 minutes.
Anyhow, this is my problem; at first I thought it was an "idle" issue. I work 3rd shift, and when I came home to hop onto the computer, I noticed a yellow icon sitting ontop of my internet icon. When I moved my mouse over to the icon and let it hover over it, it said no internet access, however, my internal network was still alive. In other words, I couldn't sign into anything that required an internet connection, I couldn't browse pages, but I could still stream movies to my ps3, or my xbox 360 just fine through WMP. I could also pull up pictures and music from my wife's laptop, and my ps3 and even my xbox 360. I thought this was some fluke thing, so I decided to unplug my router and my cable modem, and just power cycle it. Doing this fixed the problem temporarily. Not but a few minutes later, I was playing World of Warcraft and I got disconnected from it as well. I ALT/TABBED immediately, and the same icon appeared on the internet icon again. Now I knew there was a problem. I really do not know what is causing this, but I've done some of my own troubleshooting.
1. Powered down the pc, and rebooted the cable modem and the wireless router
2. Flashed/reflashed the wireless router
3. Restored factory default settings on the wireless router
4. Ran the setup/wizard installation cd that came with the wireless router
5. Rebooted the cable modem by itself
6. Rebooted the wireless router by itself
I had my own theories at first because of certain things that worked temporarily and others that didn't. At first, I thought it was the cable modem, because by unplugging it, and plugging it back in, it would fix itself for a short amount of time. Then I thought it was the wireless router that was the culprit, because I removed it from the picture completely and ran a wired connection to the cable modem and all was well for a short amount of time. It would make more sense if it was my cable modem, because it's 5 years old and the wireless router is only a few months old. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. It's probably the wrong place to be posting this, but there's bound to be a networking guru somewhere on here.
Ryan