Router reliability

[PinballSorceror]

Hey, I have a question for any and all networking gurus out there. I have a netgear 108g router, it seems on the nice-ish end to me. Anywho, every router I have ever owned; and I know this is common, will periodically need to be reset. It'll go for X number of days and then seem to lose the ability to serve the computer on it, or serve the cable modem, or both really. And then I unplug it and everything works fine for another X days. So I am wondering, is there something I have to configure to make the router retain the connection without the need for a manual reset? Or do I need to be finding a router with a certain kind of feature? Or is this a problem with the nature of cable modems and I will probably have to learn to deal with it.

 

[site3op]

I've experienced this problem with both cable and dsl. Have had it happen once in the past year on dsl. Before that, with cable modem, had it happen a few times within a few years time. I figure once a year average is enough to ignore for me.

edit: I've only used Linksys routers (can't comment on other brands.)

 

[blue68f100]

I ran into this too.
What I found, was that the loging funtion for activity and errors would use the ram up. I disabled all logs execpt errors, and it corrected my problem. I use SMC and USR's, and some Linksys. USR's have given me the best performace.