Wireless Router Has Fainting Spells

[TinCow]

I know this is kinda pathetic, but where my cable internet comes into the house, I have a severe shortage of working electrical outlets.

I hope you can solve your problems with the router, as that's clearly the easiest solution to your problem if it's possible. That said, it's not very difficult to add additional wall outlets to a room. If you're not capable of doing it yourself, it should be a relatively cheap job for an electrician and might be something worth considering if it's causing you problems. You can really keep the cost down if you just have the electrician install the outlets and then do the drywall repair yourself. If you don't mind some painting and sanding, it's actually pretty easy (and cheap) to run ethernet and coax around your house as well. If you're going to be in that house for a while and cabling is causing problems, I'd highly recommend simply fixing that problem by running a few new wires and installing new outlets.

[Lemur]

If you're going to be in that house for a while

And there's the rub—we intend to move within a year or two, so sinking significant time and/or money into this house is a Bad Idea. The media company I work for is in Chicago, and the wife-creature just picked up new work in Illinois. So Wisconsin is becoming ... inconvenient. Ultimately we need to follow the money.

When we move into a new house, however, I intend to set aside time and money for wiring the place for ethernet; wifi networking is kinda ghetto.

[TinCow]

And there's the rub—we intend to move within a year or two

Yeah, try and get the wifi fixed then. I'm a remodeling fanatic (I even have workmen in the house at the very moment I'm writing this), but I also know I'm not going anywhere for at least five more years.

[Lemur]

Well, I let the router try handling a re-download of DarthMod Empire, and it no likey. This after changing the settings and rebooting per the article @Xiahou found.

I think mebbe the simplest, cheapest solution would be to nab a cheap N-class router (with a reasonable amount of RAM), tart it up with DD-WRT, and call it a day.

I've already sunk too much time and thought into this problem. Time to plonk down thirty bucks and walk away whistling.

[Xiahou]

Yeah, try and get the wifi fixed then. I'm a remodeling fanatic (I even have workmen in the house at the very moment I'm writing this), but I also know I'm not going anywhere for at least five more years.

If you're remodeling, I hope you're having the place wired for gig ethernet.

[Lemur]

Ordering new router from Newegg now. Gonna walk away and pretend this never happened.