Networking & wireless forum: Require help! E1200 Linksys router.

It is unclear from you post as to what you mean by disconnecting. Your first issue will be to see if the router is being disconnected from your ISP or you PC is being disconnected from the router. If you use a wired port on your router and it has issues then it is a good chance it is your ISP. You would then directly connect a PC to the modem or whatever that delivers your internet to prove it is not your router to the ISP... you know they will try to blame anything they can that is not theirs.

If it turns out to be related to the wireless you can read the many post on this forum on that topic. They all come down to interference of one form or another. Resetting your router may just be a luck thing that corrects it when it is actually a neighbor router, microwave, baby monitor etc etc.

This is covered in the forum sticky but many don't read that or want to understand it. I'll give the short version.

1. Router defaults please except what the ISP needs.
2. Simple SSID. Short, 8 or so characters from 0 to 9, a to z and A to Z.
3. Change the RF channel if it falls on 1 or the highest channel. You could do some sort of site survey to find open channels but for now try channel 2.
4. Test and see if it works with no security.
5. Now secure it with WPA2 AES (personal) and use a simple short password with the same rule as step 2

This should be secure for at least 2 days given the new cracking software out there. If it slows down, change the password every 2 days until they give up.
Bob

Yes your way did not work. Sorry. I have tried changing the password but changing the password does NOTHING for me, only when I reset to factory defaults does it get fixed for 2/3 days. Changing the password it acts up within seconds. And I have set it to WEP/WPA2/WPA and many other types of encryption it does not make a difference! I am looking for solutions again people! Please help me!

Yeah, I replaced it TWICE. Over the time you've told me its a bum router. Changing the password does NOTHING and resetting to factory defaults fixes it for a day. STILL. Its nearly impossible for 3 routers of the same model to all be broken within the first week of buying them. I want somebody to tell me whats going on and please do not suggest that there are people cracking my network, because like i've said. I can rule it out because changing the password does nothing.

I'll try the best I can without visiting your site. If I was there I might look at my pad with a nice app that shows me nearby routers and systems in a way that shows me what channels are open.

I can't be right since I don't have the luxury of being there. But I will try anyway.

As it stands it's something and if I believe your PC is fine then I have to go with what I encounter elsewhere.

-> There is a test that I use when I think others are interfering with the WiFI network and it's very simple. We get WIRED and turn off the WiFi in the router. This removes WiFi from the picture.
Bob

Try a different brand router and see if you still have the problem.
Also is the router running hot?
I have changed out some of those flat linksys N routers for customers with the exact same problem you are having.
Replaced them with Netgear N routers that set vertical and run cooler.
That took care of the problem and was never called back.

I've used that as a workaround to 802.11n issues.
Bob

After all this there is only one last thing.

Forget wifi, turn off the radio and stay wired until you can change it.

Some wifi routers never work with some laptops. It's a shame that happens but it does. Remember I can't survey your location for other users so we try what we can.
Bob

If the router maker can't help, and all the ideas here fail, it's time to get your money back for another router.

I've worked too many routers over the years and even was on a team that created one of the early routers. I'm at a disadvantage that I can't see your site or swap out the router for a test. That's what we do when it's a stumper like this. But as you can guess, such a site call costs far more than a router and why most folk opt to try other routers.
Bob

The problem is indeed on the router.
I'm having the same problem on my E1200 ver 1. I just turn it of and on to allow other devices to connect.
I upgrade the firmware to no avail.
The older WRT54GL never had this kind of issue.