Wireless Reception Problems

I recently solved one wireless reception problem only to
encounter another. Aout 10 days ago I bought a bunch of
ethernet cable and moved my based station into another
room closer to my wirless adaptor-equiped laptop (about 40
feet away). All was well and reception was generally 3 -
4 green bars at 11Mbps.

Suddenly today I am being knocked out of the network
intermittently. I changed position of the base station to
the extent allowed by the length of my ethernet cables to
no avail.

Next I moved the laptop to a position less than 15 feet
from the base station, line-of-sight. Still, every 2
minutes or so I go from 5 green to 2 or even 1 yellow
bar. I have changed channels and done a reset but nothing
seems to help.

I am about to throw in the wireless towl and run cable.

Any thoughts?

What channel are you running that wireless on? I myself
use 7.

TomO,

Move the setup to a completely different room. See what
happens. This sounds like microwave interference ~2.4
GHz. This is from cordless phones; cellphone transponder
tower; satellite dish installation; game controller; you
name anything at 2.4 GHz or its harmonics.


>-----Original Message-----
>I recently solved one wireless reception problem only to
>encounter another. Aout 10 days ago I bought a bunch of
>ethernet cable and moved my based station into another
>room closer to my wirless adaptor-equiped laptop (about
40
>feet away). All was well and reception was generally 3 -

>4 green bars at 11Mbps.
>
>Suddenly today I am being knocked out of the network
>intermittently. I changed position of the base station
to
>the extent allowed by the length of my ethernet cables
to
>no avail.
>
>Next I moved the laptop to a position less than 15 feet
>from the base station, line-of-sight. Still, every 2
>minutes or so I go from 5 green to 2 or even 1 yellow
>bar. I have changed channels and done a reset but
nothing
>seems to help.
>
>I am about to throw in the wireless towl and run cable.
>
>Any thoughts?
>.
>