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[FurryNutz]

can you post the URL for the forum link that way it will show as a picture in your thread.

[skaughtEE]

sure... sorry about that...

[skaughtEE]

I've now switched it over to Channel 3...



It has not helped.  The router will restart itself almost every 5 minutes or less.  I will try the other channels and see if anything improves.

Thanks.

[skaughtEE]

I'm wondering about the "Noise" column... and I'm also wondering whether or not my signal should be stronger seeing as the router is just through the kitchen and in the next room... only 24%...

[FurryNutz]

Ya it should be way higher. Does it do the same thing back in it's original spot down stairs?

[skaughtEE]

I can't quite remember.  For my laptop, which would have been right above it, yes, but for the other wireless computers upstairs on the second floor they had a problem.  I think that they were down around 11% or so, which is why I figured that moving it closer would be a good idea.  The one in particular, which has a G network card in it, is running at around 98%.

But now it seems as though it might be running into other issues. 

And would the length of the network cable be an issue?  It is probably at least 15-20 feet.  And would that be something to have the router reboot itself?

Thanks.

[FurryNutz]

Could be if the cable wasn't made well.

I would try this. Turn of the wireless radio and see if the router reboots it self while the WiFi is OFF.
I would also try turning ON the router with out any thing connected to the LAN ports with WiFi ON and see if you notice it rebooting while just sitting there.

Building materials and distance can impact as well however I don't think this is the case here.

[skaughtEE]

I will give both of those suggestions a try and report back.

Thanks.

[skaughtEE]

Hi FurryNutz,

Just thought that I should report back and let you know that I have put my router back down into the basement where it originally was.  Things are better now, as they were before.  Obviously the router was not happy with the long ethernet cable and perhaps it was the issue.

I had read another post somewhere else where someone had hooked two DIR-655s together in order to get their signal to some upper floors.  After reading this, I thought to myself, wait a minute I have another router (DLink WBR-2310) that is doing nothing, why don't I try that too.  So, I gave the older router a new SSID, a different IP address and put the DIR-655 back down in the basement (nice and close to the Cable modem) and it's now been up (knock on wood) for over two days... and the other router, acting as a simple extender, seems to be doing the trick there too.

Thanks, once again, for all of your suggestions.

[FurryNutz]

Possible the long cable could have been the issue. In that case I would have tried a different cable.

I'm still leaning that other WiFi routers in your area are congested and using up all the channels.
However I'm glad that you got the WBR going as and AP and if that works for you in that configuration then you should be good to go. Get it all set up well and then save off the configuration files for each of them.

Enjoy.