Screamsalvation
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My workplace has a wireless network set up for a couple of offices(wired) and people to use their laptops(wirelessly) on. Today everything seemed to go downhill for the network. No one could connect wirelessly and when it finally did let them connect they received the lovely Limited or No connectivity issue. I pulled the router out (a linksys WRT54GC), unplugged it waiting 2 minutes and plugged it back in. Same problems. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and hit the reset switch on the back of the router. Same problems. So I finally went into the settings and set the router back to factory defaults. This fixed the issues for about 5 minutes, 3 people managed to connect wirelessly and get an ip address. After that anyone that tried to connect got limited or no connectivity again. There are 10 computers on a switch connected to the router and none of these wired computers have these issues. The wireless has run completely fine for the last year untill today? I turned off several laptops and reset the router to the same effect. Looking at the router DHCP listings it appears to give the laptops an IP address on the network but then disconnected the laptops and will not let them use the address it has issued in the DHCP logs. Has the wireless chip on the router gone a little flaky? I cant really set up static IPs across the whole network as a lot of employees come and go and use their laptops on all kinds of wireless networks.
Anyone have any suggestions? The router is running the newest firmware update btw.
Thanks
Anyone have any suggestions? The router is running the newest firmware update btw.
Thanks