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[emartinez]

I have a mix of wireless g and n clients as well as wired 100 and Gbit connections.
I started having problems after I "upgraded" to the 1.15 FW.

Problems:
1) All 100Mbit Wired clients experience slow response from web browsing. Multiple clicks and reloads necessary on some pages (like MSN main page).
2) Wireless clients seem to be fine.*
3) As soon as I power up my main computer (the one with the Gbit connection) the router looses its connection to the internet (PPPoE goes down and wired and wireless clients loose their connection to the router). Sometimes it recovers itself within a couple minutes (yes minutes), sometimes it does not come back at all. If it manages to come back then everything happens again (everything means the PPPoE connection is lost and all clients loose their connection) exactly every 30 minutes.

This is driving me crazy, with my main computer on everyone on the LAN looses their connection.
You can see how this is pretty annoying. I need to solve it as soon as possible to keep the little sanity I have left.

I have flashed back to 1.12 which seems to be as far back as I can. The same thing is going on in this FW.

I do not know what FW the router had when I bought it (not even 1 month ago). I wish I had read about the bad firmwares before trying to update.

Is there any way to go back to the praised 1.02 FW or any other known good FW?

Thanks!

I'll be able to post details about every single NIC and wireless devices (including router logs if needed) once I get home tonight.

[Lycan]

please provide information about the environment that the router is in.
Please list all 2.4ghz wireless devices in the area.

[emartinez]

For now, I think the problem has been solved.

This is what I did. I flashed back to 1.15 (from the 1.12 I flashed when I got the problems initially) just because it is the latest. Now, even while most of the configuration wasn't lost I logged in and made a 'reset to factory defaults'. After that I just started configuring the router little by little until the complete configuration was done.

I think the only problem I have right now is that one client gets DNS resolution problems. I'm not sure if that is the router's fault or not but the stability problem was solved after I did the reset to factory defaults.

To get into the bad stability mode what I did was to upgrade from the original firmware (I think 1.02 _or_ 1.12... not sure anymore) to 1.15 and use the saved config file afterwards.

I may not be able to reproduce the crashes anymore (and that's not a bad thing I think:).

If I can edit the OP title I'll make it read [solved] unless I run into the problem again.
I still have more configurations to restore (subnets to be defined and rules for virtual servers) but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks Lycan!

PD. The only thing I'm not too happy about is having to reboot to apply most changes. It pisses people off so they get mad at me and my router, and in return I get mad at them and at the router