I have purchased a Sitecom WL-308 XR 300Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Gaming Router from here. It cost me close to £100, it's state of the art as far as I can see. However I'm having issues with it randomly dropping connection (both Wired and Wireless).
Basically, while I'm doing whatever (playing games, surfing etc.) it will occasionally stop working. After a few seconds it'll either kick back in, or Windows will give me a yellow ! by my network, letting me know it's local only. I can still ping and access the router, but can't ping or browse WAN.
*Most* of the time, if I disconnect and reconnect to the wireless network, it'll kick it back in to working. Sometimes it'll say "Windows cannot connect" and I'll have to go down and reset the router.
I'm on a 50MB Fibre Optic connection from Virgin Media, connecting their modem to my router.
I'm 99.9% it's not the modem disconnecting, because I have never had to reset the modem to fix this issue - only the router.
Sitecom's site (when I checked last week) said that it may be an issue with using WPA with wireless-N - Apparently it only works with WPA2. However when I checked I'm using WPA2 already, so that doesn't seem to be an issue.
Also as you can guess, wireless-n, it's definitely not a signal issue. It's 5 bars in windows, 90-100% signal usually.
Although it's not a MASSIVE issue it gets annoying to randomly get disconnected while gaming, especially since it's a very expensive router. Can any networking guru's around here shed any light on why this might be happening?
(PS: Sorry for the long post, I thought details might help. Kudos and thanks to anyone who takes the time to even attempt to help =-))
Basically, while I'm doing whatever (playing games, surfing etc.) it will occasionally stop working. After a few seconds it'll either kick back in, or Windows will give me a yellow ! by my network, letting me know it's local only. I can still ping and access the router, but can't ping or browse WAN.
*Most* of the time, if I disconnect and reconnect to the wireless network, it'll kick it back in to working. Sometimes it'll say "Windows cannot connect" and I'll have to go down and reset the router.
I'm on a 50MB Fibre Optic connection from Virgin Media, connecting their modem to my router.
I'm 99.9% it's not the modem disconnecting, because I have never had to reset the modem to fix this issue - only the router.
Sitecom's site (when I checked last week) said that it may be an issue with using WPA with wireless-N - Apparently it only works with WPA2. However when I checked I'm using WPA2 already, so that doesn't seem to be an issue.
Also as you can guess, wireless-n, it's definitely not a signal issue. It's 5 bars in windows, 90-100% signal usually.
Although it's not a MASSIVE issue it gets annoying to randomly get disconnected while gaming, especially since it's a very expensive router. Can any networking guru's around here shed any light on why this might be happening?
(PS: Sorry for the long post, I thought details might help. Kudos and thanks to anyone who takes the time to even attempt to help =-))