Re: Calling all networking nerds
- From: "M.Butzin" <mfbutzin@NOSPAMdotnet>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:09:53 -0600
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On Jan 26, 2:36 am, "M.Butzin" <mfbutzin@NOSPAMdotnet> wrote:"Les Cargill" <lcarg...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Andy wrote:
>> In article <13pl21goprp9...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> "VampX" <va...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> <dv...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:26b84fef-93d3-4bfa-a3c8-fb897a4b3ba1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Any advice...greatly appreciated.
>>>> I'm about to bite the bullet & hard-wire the PC (WinXP 2nd) in my >>>> cave
>>>> to the router up on the main floor. It's currently running on
>>>> wireless card, but I must be getting nasty interference because my
>>>> connectivity is utter crap. I've never gotten more than 2 signal
>>>> bars, and I often run between none and 1 (translation: no
>>>> connection). So I'm hard-wiring the sucker. The only reason I've
>>>> avoided it is because of distance & the number of walls I have to go
>>>> through.
>>>> My question...once I plug in the network cable, will the PC >>>> recognize
>>>> the connection, or will I have to establish a new one? Do I remove
>>>> the old wireless PCI card/antenna?
>>>> -d (my networking skills range between zero and 1 bar)
>>> Wireless is highly over rated IMO anyway.
>> I'd go as far as to say it's complete ARSE :-) Esp for a desktop PC.
> Why? I can't tell the difference between wired and wireless from here.
> They all appear to bottleneck on the harddrive, anyway. I get about > 20-25
> megabit sustained throughput - with the occasional dropout.
> Over the backhaul, there's no difference at all.
> --
> Les Cargill
Your going to bottleneck at the router and the modem a wireless is just as
good as wired I have two laptops and two desktops one laptop is wired and
one is not. In my cul-de-sac there are four active networks competing, the
wired laptop downloads just as fast as the wireless one. I did purchase the
larger antenna for the router I had the same problem two bars on a 54g
2.4ghz linksys pcmcia card, then I got a shielded cable for the phone line
into the modem and put the modem and router on a backup power supply which
filtered the power line in for both. I use DSL and not cable, My sons
bedroom next to the room where the modem/router is had the same issues, I
took all the plugs out of the walls and checked the tightness of the screws
on the electrical plugs and found two loose ground screws which could cause
interferences. Then I realized that the cordless phone that was in my house
used the same frequency 2.4 gig as the router and card in my laptop, I
upgraded them to the 5 gig range and didn't have any problems after that, I
even removed the fluorescence desk light which also can cause problems when
the transformer starts to go bad. If your router and DSL Modem is plugged
into a power strip change it to where they are plugged into the wall
directly if you don't use and BU power supply/filter. Now I can sit on the
curb across the street and get lit up all four bars with a excellent
connection. Check your ground outside on your phone connection also and
switch out your phone cord and plug. I went through four routers and cards
before SBC came out and checked their connections, I lost signal completely
after 5 PM each day, the tech gave me a list of things that would effect the
signal quality, into the modem and into the router, how long are the lines
from the modem to the router? Mine are 6~8 inches, if one of those lines
gets a kink in it throw it away it's bad if someone steps on it ~ BAD those
wires are hair thin. I have put in many networks where people tried to DIY
and when they pulled a wire for the new phone line it got kinked and it left
one of the two wires just connected by a small bit of wire the signal showed
good but when I put my testers on it, it failed the test for the job. I
spent hundreds of dollars on line testers and it almost always comes down to
1. kink in a wire some where 2. wire barely making contact 3. bad ground 4.
cheap phone wire connecting modem to wall plug 5. Damaged RJ-45 / CAT 5
cable. My phone box was too close to my home AC unit and I had to put an
extra ground cable on it.
It could be something as simple as the electrical plug wire backward, use a
plug checker to test and test the phone plug for correct polarity with a
tester.
MB
Hmmm...I've had different problems. I'm running a Linksys 2.4 GHz
wireless with speedbooster. The hub is hard-wired to the central PC
on the main floor, right next to a 5.8 Ghz cordless phone base; my
wife's home office is one room away, and she's never gotten less than
4 bars on her PC.
Downstairs...I do have a cordless base next to my PC, but it's a 900
Mhz, so I don't suspect it's that.
-d
Anything that gives off an RF signal can disrupt another, I used to set my cell phone on top of my switch next to my bed when it updated the time signal since it was so close to the switch it saturated the switch with that signal and I lost connection. I had the same problem in my old house which had Aluminum wiring, some of those little transformers bleed of RF interference (hum) so badly that they cause problems for people with their amps and mics and mixers boards. My old Refrigerator used to come on and my old desk top rebooted! it was on the same circuit in the house, go figure...
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