I have cable internet through a motorolla modem (not sure exact model) and a linksys router wireless G 2.4ghz. For whatever reason my internet is really flaky, it constantly drops to where I am on wireless but windows shows that little exclamation point and says no internet access when I hover. If I reset the modem and router by pulling power and restarting them it'll come back but it will be extremely slow and usually stop working after a few minutes.
Now I do not think the issue is my wireless adapter because my laptop with internal wireless does the same thing. I also plugged my laptop directly into the modem via ethernet and it's a blazing fast 25 mbp/s according to speestest.net. So my assumption is that there's an issue with the router. However I factory reset it, and then setup my network name and no broadcast with no security and a few hours later, same issue. I factory reset it again and now it's working fine with all default settings (no security) but we'll see how it is in a few hours.
My question is does this sound like a router issue or a modem issue where it's not properly communicating with the router? I'm not sure if I should factory reset my modem as well or go buy a new router. The router is about 7 years old, do they eventually wear out? It seems very odd that factory resetting has not cleared up these issues.
Edit: Also is it normally to get much slower speeds over wirless? My max through this router lately has been about 10 mbits/s but my cable is rated at 20 with turbo boost pushing it higher and ethernet directly into the modem I can do 20-25. I thought wireless was slower but not half speed so maybe that's another router issue. I'm one room about 25 feet from the router.
Edit: More info- I discovered the router is a wrt54g v8. Was considering updating firmware but there is nothing available on linksys site. My current firmware is 8.00.2.
Now I do not think the issue is my wireless adapter because my laptop with internal wireless does the same thing. I also plugged my laptop directly into the modem via ethernet and it's a blazing fast 25 mbp/s according to speestest.net. So my assumption is that there's an issue with the router. However I factory reset it, and then setup my network name and no broadcast with no security and a few hours later, same issue. I factory reset it again and now it's working fine with all default settings (no security) but we'll see how it is in a few hours.
My question is does this sound like a router issue or a modem issue where it's not properly communicating with the router? I'm not sure if I should factory reset my modem as well or go buy a new router. The router is about 7 years old, do they eventually wear out? It seems very odd that factory resetting has not cleared up these issues.
Edit: Also is it normally to get much slower speeds over wirless? My max through this router lately has been about 10 mbits/s but my cable is rated at 20 with turbo boost pushing it higher and ethernet directly into the modem I can do 20-25. I thought wireless was slower but not half speed so maybe that's another router issue. I'm one room about 25 feet from the router.
Edit: More info- I discovered the router is a wrt54g v8. Was considering updating firmware but there is nothing available on linksys site. My current firmware is 8.00.2.
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