[Rick Lee]

Looks like all the various routers have their lovers and haters. I don't know what the problem was, but it got worse itoday, even when I plugged a laptop directly into my cable modem and Cox tech support said their signal was fine. As I was about to smash my Linksys router, my wife walks in with a NIB one, exactly the same model I have. She'd had it packed up for years. I think my router and modem got jealous when they sensed another in the room and everything is working fine now. No idea what happened. Unfortunately, I haven't come across any neigbors' unsecured networks here. There were lots of them where I used to live.