Well here is something I wanted to share with you guys. About almost a year ago I bought my Linksys WRT54g and set it up all happy that I now have wireless at home. After a couple of days I noticed that if I was downloading torrents or something heavy on the download manager, the internet on other computers at home would stop working or my router would habg and require a reset. I kept trying to play with the settings and all but it was no good (BTW this is the version that you can't install dd-wrt and others on). So after sometime I decided why not try to use it as a switch, maybe it will work.

So what I did was simply disable the DHCP on the router and instead connecting my internet connection into the designated port I connected it to one of the output ports. Then I put on some torrents and wa lah everything was working perfectly, wireless, wired all the connections were just perfect even with heavy download the linksys would not crash since it was not doing any routing and just simple switching.

I am not sure if all of you can do this but where I am thankfully there is no limit on the IP so I can practically hookup as many computers as I want...

I am no networking geek/pro, but wanted to share this with you hoping it helps any of you having this problem..

UPDATE : Well in response to the comment from Ali Khan I hope this helps:

So assuming you have a Wrt54g router ( i am sure other routers are similar),   normally   you will connect your incmoing connection i.e. the ethernet cable from your adsl modem, or whatever source internet connection to the WAN Port.

But what I did was connect it to one of the LAN Ports and did the other steps I mentioned earlier and thats it.. I hope this clears things up

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Ali Khan

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Nice article. got me interested and playing with my router. However I am not sure of one thing, What do you mean by "connecting my internet connection into the designated port I connected it to one of the output ports" ? Can you explain more on that?

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Monday 09 November 2009, 05:42

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Talha Kalim

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Well what I mean is that u have a designated port for the incoming connection .. so instead of connecting the wire from your adsl modem to that port you would connect it to one of the 4 outgoing ports? I hope you understand...

Tuesday 08 December 2009, 07:33

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We have a same feature but different brand :) I also owned an aztech wireless LAN router. We got a good router because you can either connect a dsl cable or if you have laptop you can even connect through a wifi. Now you created a wifi at home.

Sunday 14 February 2010, 21:49

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