The reason for my posts on this router, firmware etc is that (never "is because:") the laptop is 2 floors down from router, 25 ft?. When straight down, it dropped rarely. When diagonally down (another room), dropped often. That includes "would not connect". And signal was always 5-15Mb Very Low.
Comcast guy (really good!, and he isn't even supposed to mess with a router) changed names in case we had a local interfering router (I still had defaults, like many.) Since then, signal is 40-54 Mb, Good/Very Good! But sometimes it won't connect when laptop turned on, and it still drops ...sometimes is as close as I can say. It can work in AM, fail at Noon, come back later, fail later, etc.Rarely, it even backs off to, say, 5Mb, Very Low. It did that while Comcast was here...54 to 5 to 38 or so.
Winbook and router bought 9/04. What are the odds that the laptop card or router are flawed? (Comcast and I would lean toward the router)
I really don't want to go thru Linksys CS.
Brad