My router has been acting really funny lately. It works fine as long as I am not downloading a lot of files or streaming video. But as soon as I do it craps out and I have to reset it. If I try to stream or download again it craps out within a few minutes. This is very annoying because I have 2-3 computers on the network as well as a xbox 360 and a wii.

If I unhook the router and plug the modem directly into my computer I can download files or stream video just fine so I am pretty confident that I am correct that the router is the problem and not the computer or modem.

Any suggestions? Just buy a new one?

It is a 9 month old Linksys Wireless N router (I have always owned Linksys in the past without a problem).

 

Have you reloaded/upgraded the firmware?

 

I have not.

I will try it.

I have never done this before. I assume it's not hard but is there anything I should know before attempting it?

 

Here's something about it.

As long as you don't have a bunch of port forwards or something, shouldn't be a huge deal

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/8756

 

I just upgraded the firmware...lets see if this works.

Thanks BetterBob

 

I tried streaming a DivX video from ninjavideo and my internet went down. I released and renewed my ip and the internet came back...but the firmware update didn't seem to solve the problem.

Any other ideas?

 

Try using a static IP?

 

it's weird that it's only streaming and downloading from torrents. Even if I limit the download speed of the torrents to 200kb/s it still happens (I was only downloading 2 torrents or streaming one video)

watching videos from youtube and megaupload don't give me any problems.

 

Who's your ISP? Do you think they are fucking with you?

 

Comcast.

And I don't think it's my router anymore because it just happened again when I was going straight from the modem into my computer. That wasn't happening before for whatever reason...but at least I know it's not the router any more.