I hate friggin wireless setup... Added a wireless card to my sister's PC after she moved back in. During the course of my fiddling, I messed up the wireless network somehow.

Problems: When I enable the connection on my laptop/ my parents laptop, things speed along as usual for 5-10 minutes. If I begin to download something or come to a graphic-heavy site, it bogs down and dies after about a minute. When I use Windows to try to repair the connection, it fixes the problem but the cycle continues. Things were going smoothly before and its pissing me and my parents off.

We live in a small neighborhood and its an unsecured network. The MAC address was never changed... I don't understand this stuff at all.

 

make/model of router/wireless card?

 

is your sister's pc have the same issue or does only your parent's computer do that?

 

Router- Linksys WRT54G
PC Card- Belkin Wireless G Plus Desktop Card

All 3 of our computers have the same issue.

 

you already power cycled the router, i'm guessing?

 

Shared ip addresses? My router would do that too because of the QoS. Check your QoS and see if you have a limit.

Edit: QoS: Quality of Service.

 

turn the router upside down, and read off the version...it will say 1-5 depending how old it is. i'd go to linksys's website and upgrade the firmware on it before you do anything. you could also reset it back to the factory defaults, try switching the channel...but i'd upgrade the firmware first. especially if it's a version 5 and if that's the case i'd sell it asap.

 

yea this is definately a router issue. try to update the router firmware... if that doesnt work, dump it.

 

It's a version 6... I'll try updating the firmware first. Can it really just crap out like that? The damn thing's only about a month old.