Driven Mad by Wireless Mystery

For around a year I have enjoyed wireless BB connection until just before
Christmas when my Belkin router had a problem.
So bought new D Link router but couldn't get it to work, asked my usual PC
engineer in who couldn't get to work. Then got in a specialist networking
engineer who also couldn't get it to work and he tried fitting another
router in case there was a fault but could get that to work.

Bought brand new Belkin router but again couldn't get to work. Relooked at
failed router and was only power pack so Belkins sent me free one. So back
to my original set up but still not able to get to work despite calling Tech
Support and getting in my usual PC engineer.

The 'not working' is not connecting, not being able to acquire network
address and mostly dropped connection. Dropping sometimes several times per
day sometimes lasting for a few days. Tried rebooting router, restarting
PCs, reformatting both PCs and even bought dongles which sometimes work
better than PCI card.

I have two PCs around 15 months old with quite high specs, about 20 feet
apart with router half way between. Router has direct sight line to rear of
my tower. I am now being told there must be something causing the
degradation in signal and perhaps I should give up and revert to wires. Yet
neighbours to sides and across the road (four house) have no problems and
all on wireless for same period of time as me. No new wireless gadgets
anywhere.

Any ideas appreciated but bear in mind I am not a boffin.

Ken


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