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Linksys WRT54GS not connecting via LAN to Internet

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Ran across this issue at TechLab 2000 , a friends shop in Baltimore. After doing some exhaustive physical troubleshooting (checking the 16 port hub back end, looking for incorrectly wired cables, checking the Windows and McAfee firewall settings), I figured my best shot was to do more Internet research. This made absolutely no sense why the configuration would work for months, and then over the span of a week, peter out on him. Wireless connection worked to the Internet, and the LAN connected PCs could get to network shares, but not Internet. As a 'quick' fix for the day, I stuck Wireless G PCI card in the PC he used for processing online orders, and left a little frustrated after @ 4 hours of work. Later on that evening, I did some investigating and stumbled across this forum noting an almost identical problem. The Wireless and LAN connections worked fine for quite sometime, and then magically, just stopped working. I emailed the store owner and mentioned that this maybe the c