Hi Barb and Jack,
Thanks for your help.
I know it is an old router, but it worked fine, so...
Anyway, I updated it, removed the new wireless card, reinstalled it, set it
up to B, did all I could think about to find what was happening and where
it was happening. And I found.
As a side-effect of changing everything, messing around and so on the
network is wonderfully fast now. All four machines are wireless, two with
the old B cards and two with the new G cards set to B.
But if I connect my wireless router to the cable router my ISP installed,
everything ruins down. Connection with Internet is fast and perfect on all
four machines, but they hardly see each other and trying to make anything
through the network is useless. In the same way, the wireless router keeps
'dying': signal is there, strong and perfect, but no connection to anything
until you turn the router off and on again.
Disconnecting Internet router makes everything run perfectly.
Any suggestion?
Thanks again for your time and patience
Luiz Horacio
"Barb Bowman" <(E-Mail Removed)> escreveu na mensagem
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> Your Linksys router is pretty much an antique. It doesn't know about
> "G" wireless and is probably in need of replacement. while G is
> backwards compatible with B, some older routers just can't handle
> the traffic. The last hardware version (4.0) of this router should
> be running the latest firmware (April 2005). If it isn't, update it
> and see what happens. Firmware for older versions dates from 2002 to
> 2004 being the last version released.
>
> If updating the firmware doesn't help, the pursue a new router (one
> that is not discontinued and obsolete). Make sure it is set to run
> in mixed b/g compatibility mode.
>
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:12:37 -0300, "Luiz Horacio"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Probably a stupid question, but it is killing me. In fact, there are two
>>stupid questions.
>>
>>I had two machines in AdHoc mode with two LW2110P 11Mbps cards. They had a
>>bad connection, and when I needed a third machine I decided to buy a
>>wireless router. So I bought a Linksys BEFW11S4, which worked more or less
>>fine. Two machines had the LW2110P cards and one used the LAN port.
>>
>>Then I found that my router should not be on the floor, and certainly not
>>behind a granite wall (no laughs please) to make signal better. And this
>>knowledge brought all my troubles (ignorance is bliss...).
>>
>>Well, cabling two computers (now I had four) was not easy, so I bought two
>>new Wifi cards. I could not find two new LW2110P, so I got two ENLWI-G
>>54Mbps. They were much easier to install, so I lost only one day making
>>mistakes.
>>
>>Well, they worked fine, but killed my two other cards... The two computer
>>using the LW2110P work so slow that they are almost useless. If I turn the
>>new cards off and use cables the network works fine again. Looks like the
>>new cards grabs all network.
>>
>>Now the stupid question: is there a way to correct this or I'll need to
>>buy
>>new cards or router?
>>
>>Second, my Linksys BEFW11S4 keeps dying and I need to turn it off and on
>>again so that the cards can work. They keep connected, with good signal,
>>but
>>can't communicate. This seems to happen more frequently when the ENLWI-G
>>54Mbps cards are in use. Should I change the router?
>>
>>Thanks for all you people who had patience to read all this post.
>>
>>
>>Luiz Horacio
>>
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