WRT54G losing connection to cable modem

[Gerry Grenier]

I have a Linksys Wrt54g wireless router. It has worked fine for 9 months. I have it connected to a cable mode.

Last week I began to lose internet connectivity from all three computers in the house via the wireless. When I lose the connectivity I can see that my normal comcast IP address has been changed to 169.254.20.79.

I disconnected the wireless router and wired my cable modem to one machine and that worked without failure for one week. I reconnected the wireless tonight and the internet connection dropped after five minutes. I lost both my wired and wireless connectivity as again the cable modem showed a non-comcast IP address. Any help would be appreciated!

[cjlennon]

Hey Gerry,

       If I remember correctly, these cable modems are either static or dynamicly assigned IP addresses by the ISP.  If it is a static IP modem, then something is wrong in the modem.  If it is dynamically assigned, then Comcast is assigning a bad IP.  Either way, why not call Comcast and run it by their tech guys.  Sounds like it is nothing on your side and Comcast needs to look into it.  Just a thought.

[peanuts]

For the linksys router logon to www.linksys.com/download and try to upgrade the firmware for the router

 Follow these steps to upgrade the firmware on the device: - Open
an Internet Explorer browser page.In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1 Leave username blank & in password use admin
Click on the 'Administration' tab- Then click on the 'Firmware Upgrade' sub tab- Here click on 'Browse' to select the extracted/uncompressed .img or .bin file and click on "Upgrade"-Wait for few seconds ....
It shows that "Upgrade successful"  After the firmware upgrade, click on "Reboot" and you will be returned back to the same page OR it will say "Page cannot be displayed".
Reset the router for few seconds ....
Reconfigure it ....