Re: Limited or No wireless connection

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 08:43:57 -0700, "Feverish"
<feverish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have a network set up in my house. Three computers connect via wireless.
>All three have Very good to excellent signal strength, all three can connect
>using current setup.
>
>Here's the problem: all three periodically drop off the network with the
>limited or no connection error. From time to time they will just as suddenly
>re-connect, and work fine.

Periodically? Is it at regular intervals, which is the definition of
periodic? Or is it at random intervals for random lengths of time?
It sounds to me like an RF interference problem. Possibly another
wireless system, microwave oven, or other source of 2.4GHz trash. If
you could provide a better description of the timing, I can try to
guess the source by the pattern.

>I know it has to do with the router assigning a DHCP address, but what is
>causing it NOT to assign said address?

Nope. That's not the problem. If you don't have connectivity, DHCP
renewal will fail. Unless you turn on all three computers at the same
time, there's no way that all three leases will require renewal at the
same time. Also, the default lease time is one day so you should not
be experiencing problems "periodically" if caused by DHCP issues.
Methinks not.

>The router is a brand new Linksys WRT54G, two of the three computers have
>Linksys cards, one has a D-link card.

Models of Linksys cards and D-Link card?

>All computers running XP-SP2 using Windows networking software.

Try changing the RF channel in the WRT54G in case it's interference.
You're choices are 1, 6, and 11.


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