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Hey Matt,
I had the same problem with my Wife's computer running win XP SP2. We had her old computer running win 98 in the same spot using the same network adapter for over a year, and it never dropped a connection. Then we bought the new machine, put the 80211.g adapter from the old computer into the new one, and we had the same symptoms you are having. As far as I can tell it has to be the win XP network driver.
After months of trying different things I finally got a semi-reliable connection. Instead of dropping out several times a day it drops out once every couple months, and the connection comes right back instead of staying out. Here is what I did:
In the advanced network adapter settings there is property called something like "roaming decision" (I forget the exact name. I can check exactly how to get there tonight if you can't find it). Set that to "maximum distance". Second, and I know this sounds crazy, but I read it on several different internet BBSes, and I tried it and it works. Add the IPX network protocol onto your machine. Third, disable automatic updates. Whatever unknown thing that adding in the IPX protocol fixes gets undone every time automatic updates runs. I have my wife's machine set up to download the updates automatically, but not install them. When I install them I have to go into the network settings, remove IPX, add IPX back in, and then the network works again. It is a big time PIA, but linksys couldn't figure it out, and this is the best I could come up with.
Did I mention I will never buy a windows comuter again? I won't. The two linux boxes we have at home, my computer and our Tivo, work flawlessly.
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