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Sorry, lunch break.
Regarding your topology: where is the cable modem plugged into the BEFSR81? It should be in the BEFSR81's uplink port. The WR54G should be on a LAN port. If you can, set the WR54G to use simple gateway mode. No RIP.
This is flexible with different products and configs but the multitude of firmware releases sends me back to basics. Sounds like you have a couple things working intermittently depending on who boots first or who catches the lucky packet. I'm just trying to get to a known quantity.
Static addressing is simple. If you ever do use DHCP remember the one server thing.
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