Wireless NIC drops...

Hi, all...

This is sorta an O'dark thirty post... late at night, mind wandering...

Anyway, I've got an AirLink wireless card in a mini-tower (XP SP2), with an
extension cable that puts the antenna at the same height as the Linksys
router's antenna, sitting about 8 feet apart. Both antennas are set at 45
degrees in the same direction. The NIC reports execellent connection at
54Mbs always. And the connection frequently drops. This drives my wife nuts,
because she'll compose a multi paragraph email only to have it bomb when she
tries to send. It drives my daughter crazy because she's trying to do
college work on-line.

Don't have 802.xx authentication enabled.... don't have any power saving
options enabled... just turned off Windows firewall and that had no impact
(not that I expected it would, but, what the hell...)

When I view available wireless networks, I see many, up to 6 or 7 at any
given time. All have 1 bar with the exception of one that has 3 bars. I've
seen reference to changing channels, but the NIC in question has no channel
settings. The router is using channel 11 at present. I've got two PC's that
access the router via wi-fi and I've noticed that if I change the channel on
the router but not on the NIC's of the workstations, it doesn't seem to have
any effect. Meaning the router can be set at channel 6 and the NIC (of the
PC capable of selecting a channel) can be set at channel 11 and
communication still happens. Like I said.... an O'Dark Thirty post.

I'd be willing to drop the extra bucks on buying a Linksys NIC if I thought
that might offer better compatibility betwix the two entities, but history
has taught me that pairing hardware from the same vendor is not always a
guaranteed solution. I will note that the second PC also drops the wireless
connection but not nearly as frequently as the one in question.

Opinions, suggestions, and even kiss-offs, highly anticipated.

Thanks,

Lang

> This is sorta an O'dark thirty post... late at night, mind wandering...

An "I've been woken up far too early post" :-)

I've got a D-Link AirPlus in a mini-server PC which is currently about 6m
from the wireless router. This is one where there's a little antenna on the
back of the PC, down near the floor. It works but like you, it occasionally
drops the connection.

So I've bought another NIC from Dabs which has a little separate antenna on
a wire to see if that helps on the basis "I wonder if this AirPlus is naff".
So you're not alone.

Rob.

Rob Nicholson cried out

>> This is sorta an O'dark thirty post... late at night, mind
>> wandering...
>
> An "I've been woken up far too early post" :-)
>
> I've got a D-Link AirPlus in a mini-server PC which is currently
> about 6m from the wireless router. This is one where there's a
> little antenna on the back of the PC, down near the floor. It
> works but like you, it occasionally drops the connection.
>
> So I've bought another NIC from Dabs which has a little separate
> antenna on a wire to see if that helps on the basis "I wonder if
> this AirPlus is naff". So you're not alone.
>
> Rob.
>
>
>

I've had horrible experiences with the D-Link AirPlus products, they
either drop all the time or kill the router they are connected to by
overflowing tables...

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In <Xns9766EE696E78Crosco111@69.28.186.121> on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:26:27 GMT,
Rosco <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've had horrible experiences with the D-Link AirPlus products, they
>either drop all the time or kill the router they are connected to by
>overflowing tables...

FWIW, my own experience with them has been very good.

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> FWIW, my own experience with them has been very good.

See - that computer's for you :-)

Rob.

> I've had horrible experiences with the D-Link AirPlus products, they
> either drop all the time or kill the router they are connected to by
> overflowing tables...

I plugged the little Edimax PCI NIC in over the weekend with it's dinky
little antenna on the stand. It's working flawlessly so far as well as
getting a "Very good" to "Excellent" signal whereas the AirPlus was getting
a lot worse and was all over the place.

Rob.