Wifi DHCP Problems

Hi

I am having a spot of bother with a mates pc's (note to self don't
offer to
do Pc favours for people).

His good lady went out to Pc World (not a good start I know) and was
duly
fleeced by their sales staff.

They sold her a Pc, a laptop a belkin adsl wifi router, two belkin wifi
pci
cards (one for the exisisting pc) and two printers oh and a Linksys 54g

pcmcia card for the lappy (note to others if you are having problems
with a Linksys Pcmcia card and connecting to a wireless network it
"may" be the drivers Linksys have a beta driver if yourlappy has a
Texas pcmcia controller).

All sounds ok ish the problems I am having is that after finally
extracting the BtYahoo Broadband DNS settings and managing to set up
the modem wifi router that all 3 pcs will "sometimes" connect and other
times won't when they don't they come up with "your pc has limited
network connectivity etc etc" and whilst having an ip address (and
possibly a subnet mask) don't seem to get any further even after a
repair network connection - however sometimes about 5 minutes later
they "may" connect and start working ok.

I have set all the pc's with wpa-psk and have had all of the
connections up and running at one time or another. I havent run the
Wifi network wizard - well not untill tomorrow evening anyway as I was
of the opinion that I had done everything right - but then again.

The Wifi Router is not in the ideal position at the moment due to the
sighting of both of the phone points in the house - but all of the pc's
normally seem to have a moderate signal showing a potential 11 mbs
connection (on a 54g network) at worst.

I am now getting to the point of finding the nearest skip or possibly
running a load of network cables around the house to rectify the
problem.

Any thoughts greatfully recieved. Many thanks in advance.

Eddie

On 21 Sep 2005 14:56:00 -0700, "Elcuolo" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Any thoughts greatfully recieved.

turn off the wireless security

move the router to a sensible place - 11M on 54g is rubbish.

Phil
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Thanks Phil - I am trying to get them to move the router and put the
main pc on a network cable.

I "may" have solved the problem now, as I did a factory reset and set
everything up again, I now have two wifi pc's connecting simultaneously
whereas before only one would connect at a time - god only knows why.

But then that's they joy of the pc for you isn't it.