My Wireless Router causes packet lose and slow wireless connection - Linksys WRT54G

Yesterday night my wireless connection showed some issues. I was connected to the wireless router but the connection speed was very less. I am using Linksys WRT54G wireless router in my home.First I thought it is the Internet connection which is slow. I tested my desktop computer with modem and find out that Internet is working fine. Then I connect my computer to the wireless router through an Ethernet cable and the connection is fine. So it is the problem with wireless connection. What I guess is wireless may loosing packets due to some mysterious reason. I went ahead and fixed the issue. Here I am writing the normal steps to fix the wireless packet lose issue.

Wireless is loosing packets(slow wireless connection) - Wireless fix

The normal trouble shooting steps to fix the wireless packet loosing issue are:

1. Power cycle the wireless router:

In this process you need to unplug the power cable from your wireless router and wait for 30 sec. After 30 seconds you can reconnect the power cable. You need to wait until power, wireless and Ethernet light is ON. In most of the packet loosing(slow wireless connectivity) cases after this step ,the issue will be fixed.

2. Reduce Wireless beacon interval

You can reduce the default beacon Interval to default -100 in advance wireless settings.

3. Reset and reconfigure the wireless router.

The next available solution for slow wireless connection is reset the wireless router and reconfigure it.

Steps to reset wireless router

i. Press and hold the reset button for 1 minutes.

To reconfigure your Linksys wireless router follow the link below.

How to Configure Linksys Wireless Router

To configure your Belkin Wireless router click on the link below.

How to configure Belkin wireless router


3. Update the Wireless router firmware

The next step to fix the slow wireless connection issue is to update the firmware of the wireless router to the latest version.

To see the steps to upgrade the firmware of Belkin wireless router is:
Steps to update Belkin wireless router firmware


To know how to upgrade the firmware of Linksys wireless router click on the link below.
Steps to update Linksys wireless router firmware

After following the steps provided above most of the slow wireless connection issues will be resolved.

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