Dropping Wireless Connection (Resolution)

I gave up.

Last night I opened up the case, blew away all the dust, and removed the
second hard drive, an 80 mb Hitachi Deskstar. I don't use it much and I
thought it might be a bit flaky. (It was a second replacement for the
original, and I finally gave up and put in a Western Digital as the primary
drive.)

Cranked up the machine, connected to the network, ran Windows Update, looked
like it was starting the download. Success! Nope, the network connection
dropped as usual. (I think that's 7 times in a row Windows Update has
killed the wireless connection?I still don't understand why it specifically
would kill the connection, but it was consistent.)

Rebooted, then watched the connection. Transfer rate kept going up and
down, from a high of around 18mb, down to a low of 2.

I'm guessing the network adapter is gradually dying.

I've been planning on moving the cable modem and wireless router out of my
(recently married) daughter's bedroom on the other side of the house and up
into my office. So I bit the bullet, made the move, and connect my machine
directly to the router.

My machine now appears snappier, even for non-internet tasks, but it might
be my imagination. Windows Update worked flawlessly and quickly. Wife's
laptop also has a better wireless connection, since she is mostly in the
room below the office.

Like I said, I gave up trying to resolve the wireless connection problems.

Of course, I now have a gigantic tangle of cables that I have to somehow
organize?



Sam



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Dimension 4600, with a LinkSys Wireless-G network adapter. Been running
nicely for at least 2 years, but recently it has been losing the network
connection after it runs for a while. The only solution is to reboot.

I've confirmed I have the latest LinkSys software (2004 I believe).

Last night it dropped 3 times after starting Microsoft Update, though not
always at the same place. Gave up and went to bed.

Tonight I tried Microsoft Update again about 15 minutes after turning the
machine on and the connection dropped almost immediately. I rebooted, and
the machine has been behaving for the last 90 minutes.

I run PC-Cillin as a virus checker, and regularly run Spybot and Ad_Aware.
I'm running PSK wirelesss security.

Any thoughts?



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