Re: Dropping Wireless Connection (Resolution)
- From: Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_not@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:43:46 -0400
The other strong possibility for the flaky wireless connection is radio
interference. I've got it here in my house. I routinely run various notebooks
with wifi in my kitchen with the router maybe 25 feet away. The wifi connection
speed see-saws up and down for no apparent reason. One time-consuming way to
deal with it is to experiment with the wifi channel number used by the router.
It's fortunate that you got your daughter married off so you could web surf
better. :-) Now get yourself some of the plastic cable ties and tie up the
cables. But be careful that you don't tie them so short that you won't be able
to get at the equipment when needed... Ben Myers
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:07:23 -0400, "Saml" <none@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
"Saml" <none@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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