Belkin F5D7630-4A ADSL Modem with Wireless Router - problems

I am having problems with my wireless router. On occasion the
connection between the PC and the wireless router keeps dropping and I
lose my connection. This seems to be more prevelant when two computers
are using the network (in many cases when this happens one computer
keeps losing the connection while the other is fine). I have tried
numerous settings within the router settings but with no luck. Does
anyone have any ideas?

I am using WPA-PSK encryption and running Windows XP fully patched.
Both computers are using static IP addresses on the network. Many of
my issues look similar to the issues in this thread
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,10070950. I have tried
pretty much all the ideas there minus the change in firmware.

The loss of connection is driving me mad!

"hornbyrob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am having problems with my wireless router. On occasion the
> connection between the PC and the wireless router keeps dropping and I
> lose my connection. This seems to be more prevelant when two computers
> are using the network (in many cases when this happens one computer
> keeps losing the connection while the other is fine). I have tried
> numerous settings within the router settings but with no luck. Does
> anyone have any ideas?
>
> I am using WPA-PSK encryption and running Windows XP fully patched.
> Both computers are using static IP addresses on the network. Many of
> my issues look similar to the issues in this thread
> http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,10070950. I have tried
> pretty much all the ideas there minus the change in firmware.
>
> The loss of connection is driving me mad!
>
The problem is down to Windows itself. I use XP home - a legal copy and up
to date - if you leave the PC on long enough it will lose the ability to
provide web browsing. You have to click repair connection or switch off and
on again. Using two PCs causes problems too.
Obtaining an IP address is a headache.
This is on a DLINK ADSL router by the way, one PC has a realtek card and the
other a Belkin PCI. So it's not down to the actual hardware or the router.
It is Windows XP Home and Professional I run! BOTH have problems.

I'm waiting for MS to release a fix for this.
You're not alone, it seems to be happening more and more now.
Mine uses WPA-PSK.

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:54:43 GMT, "john" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>The problem is down to Windows itself. I use XP home - a legal copy and up
>to date - if you leave the PC on long enough it will lose the ability to
>provide web browsing. You have to click repair connection or switch off and
>on again. Using two PCs causes problems too.

>Obtaining an IP address is a headache.

>This is on a DLINK ADSL router by the way, one PC has a realtek card and the
>other a Belkin PCI. So it's not down to the actual hardware or the router.
>It is Windows XP Home and Professional I run! BOTH have problems.

Sorry, but I'd be suspicious of the *router* which is the common denominator.

Here I use Win 95, Win 98, and Windows XP Home and have PCs on a lot of the
time (some have been on 24 x 7 for weeks, others for a week at a time) without
having problems over the internet connection. If you had cables rather than
going wireless, I wonder whether you'd still blame it on Windows XP... For
all I know it could be the drivers (but again, as the common denominator is a
wireless router, that's the thing I would suspect the most). Also, if you
used fixed IP addresses, instead of using DHCP, you may find few problems, or
set the lease time to be several weeks, if you can. I have set up wireless
routers at the homes of a few people, and none have the same problems.

They're not (for various reasons, mostly a mix of Win 98 and Win XP) using
WPA, but do use WEP and have fixed IP addresses (as I use VNC to get
a connection to their PC, if they get stuck with a virus).

>I'm waiting for MS to release a fix for this.

Then what exactly must they fix ? If it was a problem with TCP/IP it'd
have caused the same problems with Win 95 and earlier on with MS-DOS.

>You're not alone, it seems to be happening more and more now.
>Mine uses WPA-PSK.

QED.

In article <DUNef.6259$(E-Mail Removed)>, john says...

> The problem is down to Windows itself. I use XP home - a legal copy and up
> to date - if you leave the PC on long enough it will lose the ability to
> provide web browsing.

Bollocks.


--
Conor

"You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen
Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras.

In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>,
hornbyrob says...
> I am having problems with my wireless router. On occasion the
> connection between the PC and the wireless router keeps dropping and I
> lose my connection. This seems to be more prevelant when two computers
> are using the network (in many cases when this happens one computer
> keeps losing the connection while the other is fine). I have tried
> numerous settings within the router settings but with no luck. Does
> anyone have any ideas?
>

Mine did the same. In the end I got so fed up after the same problem
with three of them that I took it back to pissy world and bought a
Netgear instead.

--
Conor

"You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen
Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras.

Yeah, just done the same thing. Things seem alot better with the
Netgear although it has just dropped all the connections in the same
way as the belkin! Routers are rubbish and can't be well tested!

Anyway the DG834 Netgear seems better as it allowed my Xbox 360 to
connect! I had struggled for two days with the Belkin and then tried
the Netgear and in two shakes it was up and running.

Looking through all the topics, i wonder if anyone actually has a
decent wireless setup!