Using WPA not WEP causes wireless drop out.

[garethrees]

I have a WAP55AG and two WET54G bridges connected to it.

1x(WAP55AG - Dual-Band Wireless A + G Access Point )

and

2x( WET54G - Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge)

It all works fine when I use WEP encription, however if you change the encryption to WPA after about 1-2 hours both WET54Gs loose the connection to the WAP55AG access point and will not auto re-connect.

Strange thing is that if you change the encryption back to WEP they will all work for days without any drop connection.

I have tried the following:-

* Latest Firmware on all units.

* Hard and Cold reset on all units.

* Signal is over 95% on both WET54Gs

* All 13 channels are the same

* Setting up one computer to PING all three devices from the WAP54AG, which always returns a ping for hours on end using WEP and will drop out after a hour or two using WPA.

* Unpluging all other computers, routers, firewalls, hubs and switches so that only the 3 linksys units and one computer used for PING are used. The problem still exists.

Anyone have any other ideas, I would be happy to here them.

Best Regards Gareth

[garethrees]

Today, I spend an hour online trying to explain the problem via the live chat. Saying repeated times that I beleived this was a bug! was told to reboot, this.. reboot that! wasted a lot of time.

Finally I gave up...

Further research tonight and I have found that what I thought was the latest firmware was infact an old version installed on a new product!

and that the latest firmware for the WET54G contains a fix..

Quote: '- Fix: A lost of connection will occur after a few hours in WPA mode'

This is what I was telling the customer services person.. OMG..

Try installing V2.07 firmware if anyone else is having this problem.

Message Edited by garethrees on 10-26-200603:00 PM

[garethrees]

Further Update, there are 4 versions of the WET54G V1, V2, V3 and V3.1 (Europe)

Mine was the V3.1 and needed Firmware: v2.03, May 12, 2006 ETSI

So far it apears to have worked for 12 hours without drop out.

Thanks Linksys for hosting a good firmware download site. Makes me want to buy more linksys kit in the future.

Hope this helps.