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[techniq]

    D-Link, please address this problem.  Similar dropouts have been described in several posts!!! 

I have what is apparently the same problem.  Let me add my details: 
•   I have DIR 615 Rev C1, Firmware 3.11NA.  It was purchased in December timeframe.
•   I am networking a Win7 machine and a printer via cable, and with 2 WinXP machines and a PS3 connected wirelessly.
•   Often the machines show up as available, but when I try to open them, none of the shared folders can be found.
•   Sometimes, I can’t even open the shared folders on the hard-wired computer, and sometimes it doesn’t even show up as there even though it is the computer I am using.  Even under that condition, I can usually access the internet.
•   This happens to me about once every couple of days. 
•   Sometimes I lose the internet connection as well as the home network.  When this happens, I can bypass the router and see the internet.
•   I also have a cell phone and 2.4 GHz home phones, but interference would probably not explain my losing the cable connection.
•   I am set up with fixed IP addresses to the router and I have them reserved, but my internet connection is DHCP.
•   Power-cycling the router and cable modem and rebooting the main computer always fixes the problem, but I haven’t yet been able to pin down which of these things is necessary.  Once I “apparently” fixed the problem by just logging off my main computer, and then back on again -- but I know that doesn’t make much sense because it shouldn’t affect the wireless connections.

[batkinson001]

not sure on this but the router seems to not like my xbox 360 and its wireless N adapter...

for 3 months (of owning the adapter) it has worked fine, with rebooting the router ever  few days due to the router lagging or comps internet connection being unresponsive...

this issue seems to be with the router...

[techniq]

Just to provide more info:
*    I believe I have eliminated any possibility that it is related to anything into my main computer (Win7) because sometimes the WinXP machines can't see each other when the main machine is off.
*    Sometimes one of my WinXP machines can see the other, but the connection doesn't work the other way.  This is rare and to be honest, I'm only 90% sure it's a valid symptom.
*    One XP machine uses a Wireless B connection that came with the mother board, and the other uses a D-Link DWA-140 vB1 wireless N.  The PS3 is seldom on the network and I seriously doubt that it has anything to do with the problem, but it is Wireless G.