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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Belkin 54g wireless router disconnecting

How to solve permanently disconnecting Belkin 54g wireless router?


Yeah I know it very well. It can be drastically annoying the connection goes on and off all the time and you can't watch film, upload stuff, or effectively work from home.
Probably you even have noticed that the situation worsen when everyone is at home.
The good news here is that you don't need to rush to shop for new router. At least not before you try the following.

The cheap Belkin router comes with very handy web-interface loaded with functions.
Wait until everyone is asleep or go to your router and plug the wire in one of the 4 LAN slots.
In browser go to http://192.168.2.1 and navigate to "Channel and SSID" you can find it in "Wireless" section
The router comes set up for automatic channel selection which sometimes when a lot of wireless devices is querying causes the router going crazy and it rotates between channels. That is where it disconnects and reconnects all the time. Go ahead and choose one channel. You might try few of them before you find the stable one.

This is not a solution for all the problems but in some cases it might help. Other "tricks" in the sleeve are updating firmware, playing with wireless mode, MAC Address filtering etc.
I might write next few posts about it.

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