"Evan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Good signal, easy setup. Using with WRT54GS in another room.
>
> Problem is, with the connection for this device enabled, my hard drive
> clicks and grinds about once every second. The disk access light comes
> on for a brief moment. It's been doing this now for several hours.
>
> As soon as the USB adaptor is removed, or the network connection
> disabled, this stops.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Evan
>
If I remember correctly, I had a similar problem with a WRT54G setup. The
problem, for me at least, was a default setting on the router whereby the
router and my PC's network card were changing the encryption
number/algorythm/key every one (1) second or so. I forget exactly what you
call it, and I am at work right now so I don't have access to my home PC.
It might have been the "beacon interval".
I was using WPA security. Without any security, the problem went away; but,
no security is NOT acceptable.
Anyway, every time the router would change its encryption key (I think it
was encryption), the hard drive would kick in for a second. Very annoying.
I changed the interval on the router using Internet Explorer (try entering
192.18.1.1 to bring up the router's screen) to something like every 3600
seconds (60 minutes) instead of the default 1 second and the problem went
away just like that.
There were other things that I changed on my PC, such as turning off system
restore which noticeably cut down on the hard drive use when the PC was just
sitting there supposedly doing nothing.
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