Thanks for all the help you have been giving me folks. My linksys is version 7.x so I couldn't run tomato. However, I was amazingly able to install ddwrt on my linksys and that seemed to improve the connection between the two somewhat. I'm still getting cutouts for about 10 seconds where I can't hear someone talking but they can hear me fine. Today I'm going to flash the asus with the ddwrt and hope that solves the problem. I'll keep you posted. Maybe it has something to do with flow control. My cable is something like 10mbs down and 5 up (comcast). Also the devices are all next to each other for testing so signal strength shouldn't be a problem. Wondering what else I can check. Anyway, I'll keep you folks posted once I upgrade the asus with ddwrt.