Linksys router faults

[Knoxious]

Recently, my computer's been able to access the internet. It says I'm connected. When I call up my ISP, they tell me I'm connected. However, not a single page will bleeding load.

I have a linksys WAG54G V2. I'm not sure why it does this. Both times that I've called up the linksys trouble-shooting people, they've told me to reset the router and then reconfigure it. It works now (but then again, I tried that yesterday and it disconnected on me again this morning).

What could be the problem? Is it the router? Is it because I'm downloading too much?

Thanks in advance!

[YeOldeStonecat]

Quite a few things to look at...

First..are you connecting your PC wirelessly, or using an ethernet cable? This can help troubleshoot if your problem is related to specifically the wireless, or the gateway itself

Is your PC clean from viruses/adware/worms/spyware/malware? In healthy condition?

When you say "download too much"..are you running those file sharing P2P apps? Those will bring malware into your PC..and...because of the many concurrent connections they utilize..they will usually overwhelm most "home grade" routers...bogging them down until you power cycle them to free up their RAM. One way to alleviate this is in most of those P2P programs..you can really throttle back the amount of connections they'll deal with..trim them down.

[Knoxious]

This particular computer is connected to the router via ethernet cable. How does that affect the problem?

And yes, I use P2P programs (limewire specifically). How do I go about trimming the connections down?

Thanks so much, by the way :)

[Addict]

This particular computer is connected to the router via ethernet cable. How does that affect the problem?

And yes, I use P2P programs (limewire specifically). How do I go about trimming the connections down?

Thanks so much, by the way :)

See here: http://www.limewire.com/english/content/userguide.shtml

For adware/spyware/malware:
Check out www.lavasoftusa.com for Ad-Aware. Also look at http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx.

For virus:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

[YeOldeStonecat]

This particular computer is connected to the router via ethernet cable. How does that affect the problem?


Wired or wireless..the traffic still goes through the router..uses the routers CPU and memory, and uses your internet pipe.

[YARDofSTUF]

(limewire specifically)


Well we know his PC isnt clean now! :rotfl:

[trogers]

This particular computer is connected to the router via ethernet cable. How does that affect the problem?

And yes, I use P2P programs (limewire specifically). How do I go about trimming the connections down?

Thanks so much, by the way :)

You can use PeerGuardian2 to block out bogus traffic spinned out by torrent downloads:

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/