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is it possible to allow two wireless G Routers on different channels and one killing the other due to being less than ~10-15 feet apart??


my WRT-54G with DD-WRT installed has gone crazy, i cannot get it to accept a RCA Cable Modem WAN IP Assignment, ive already reset the modem and the router, rebooted the router to factory defaults on DD-WRT and it simply refuses to acquire a address from the Cable modem, my BEFSR41 is now hooked up and running fine?!?! can one router kill another?

Highly unlikely even if they were stacked right on top of each other.

Did you try cloning the BEFSR41 mac address on to the WRT-54G?

well at the moment im running the BEFSR alone, when the WRT was active, the BEFSR was in Switch mode. the WRT was the primary device with the BEFSR as the secondary switch. neither one of them had to be cloned to get them to work.

Kroms absolutely correct. Highly unlikely.

Sounds to me like the settings of one is stopping the other from \"getting there\". I'm guessing you've tried the WRT without the BEFSR even powered on?

Meanwhile... to see how the wireless signals are interacting with each other (and to see if there are any other wireless signals in the area) ... If you're using Windows ... Download and install inSSIDer and use it to see how the wireless signals are interacting.

yes WRT alone still will not get a WAN IP from the Modem

Just try cloning the MAC on the WAN port from the working router and see if it has any effect, most cable ISPs will only lease an IP out to one MAC per modem at a time (you have to DHCP release the IP to plug a different device in or unplug it and wait 1-3 days for the lease to expire otherwise).

tried that already, i guess it just went to router heaven

I have two WRT 54G's beside each other and never had a problem. I have had several failures over the last year of these models as well as one of my own and I live in a small Town. Sometimes hammering reset 50 times and swinging a chicken over your head in a circular motion gets them going again... like the original Blackberry mail server configurations.

Canuck wrote: Sometimes hammering reset 50 times and swinging a chicken over your head in a circular motion gets them going again... like the original Blackberry mail server configurations.

Had to laugh at that one!

yeah same here, good one!


ohwell i guess im buying a new router




well....................



maybe, not! i did the ol' shorting pins 15-16 on the Flash Chip trick again, yes AGAIN and it works again. im back on the wireless router and its working beautifully!!