Router post #3

OK, my previous router (the D-link) was obviously defective. The new one (the Linksys) was flying out of the box. But... (there's always a "but")

Yesterday I was working from home. So in total there were three PCs connected to the Internet. First thing is that the "work" PC kept on getting disconnected. Not frequently like the D-link was doing, but it happened maybe 5 times during the "work day". Also, later in that evening, using either one of the home PCs, some web pages would take very long to load, or would not load at all. A rare page would load normally. This and the work PC disconnections were probably related. I tried resetting the router with the small reset button on its back. That seemed to fix the problem since any page would now load fine. But that only lasted for a short period, as the slow loads came back. Oddly though, my MSN was working, as well as the torrent that was active at that moment (downloading at 60kb/s, which is pretty decent). Just before the end of the evening, I decided to update the firmware or the router. Again, this seemed to fix it until we got to bed... A few minutes ago I asked my wife how was the Internet, and she said it was not so good. She did not seem to think it was as bad as yesterday evening, but still not very good.

There isn't seem to be any consistency to this whole thing. At this point, I'm not sure if it's the router again, or our Internet provider (this does happen when they are in the process of upgrading something), or the Internet in general (it does also happen that sometime the Internet just is not as snappy as other days). But I'm going to let it run for a few more days, and if the problem remains, I think I'm gonna try another damn router. Someone on a message board said "with routers, it's hit or miss". I now believe him.