WRT120N - wireless capability commonly fails and requires the router to restart

I bought the router WRT120N wireless about a month ago and have found this camera WiFi functionality fails systematically.  I have several wireless devices in our House, but it's the iTouch from Apple that use it most of the time.  Every day or two wireless stops working and I have to rebooot the device through the web administration page.  Then, everything continues to work for a while until what we notice that it has not yet.  I have updated the firmware on the router to v1.0.04 and carefully followed the instructions, but it made no difference.

The search on the web revealed that it was a widespread and well-documented problem.  Several other messages Forum warn consumers to avoid buying this product cheap and unreliable.

I'm about to abandon the device back to the store I bought, but thought I'd give another chance to this forum to see if there is any fix or alternative.

Please notify.  Thank you.

FYI - I ended up taking my router back to the store I bought and received a new identical replacement unit.  This other has managed to keep the network wireless for a week or so now, so I guess that the former, I had was a dud.

In the end, none of the suggestions on this topic were no help.  The unit was just defective.

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