I am using the latest firmware update for this router.  Before I buy new cables (cat 5), could you get on the Internet with no problem even when you could not properly log in to share files?  I get a perfect connection to the router for logging on to the Internet, it is just the file sharing that isn't working.


>Have you checked for firmware updates for your SMC 4-port
>router/switchbox?  I fixed some problems with my D-link router by
>downloading and flashing my router firmware to a later version.
>
>By the way, the symptoms of not logging on the network every time was the
>same symptoms I had with the "almost connected" bad cable.  Apparently the
>wires were close enough to get a weak signal across the small gap sometimes
>and then not work other times.  With my network I was so sure that the
>problem was with my router that I bought another, a LinkSys, and it had the
>same problems as the D-link (not logging in and intermittently working).  I
>finally pulled a long single piece cable from the router to my PC and
>plugged it in and it worked flawlessly.  I never found where my original
>cable had the bad connection, I just pulled and terminated a new one.
>
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