OK, this one is a little weird, so here goes:
My home network is a Linksys WRT54G (v6, newest firmware) which feeds my desktop, a laptop, a Vonage adapter, and a Buffalo Media Station (all wired). The laptop is used for a voip program for radio amateurs called Echolink. The laptop is also the only device taking a static IP (.1.105) while the rest are dynamic from the router. This system works fine and dandy until I start up my other laptop (802.11g) and connect it to the wireless side of the router. When this happens, the static IP laptop loses its connection, and very rapidly regains it. It happens so fast that you would probably not see the hiccup, it if it wasn't causing all the open voip connections to timeout and disconnect. I have tried moving the voip laptop to the DMZ, which doesn't fix it. I should mention that the application on the laptop requires the router to forward UDP ports 5198-5199 to the host PC, which is why the laptop is set up for a static local IP.
On another note (maybe different problem, maybe not), on the desktop PC (dynamic IP, wired connection), after I've downloaded a significant amount (high hundreds of MB, close to a GB) at one sitting, the PC will lose its connection to the Internet. All the other devices can still acces the net, which tells me it is a problem inside my router or the PC. If my ISP was cutting me off, it would disable ALL my PC's, not just the desktop.
Also of note, the same problems have occurred on two different WRT54G's, one a v5 and the other a v6.
Anyone heard of these Gremlins?
Hammie
