intermittant wireless blackouts

[James Todd]

Hi,
I have an odd problem (well, to me it's odd)....

In our house we have a Netgear DG834G ADSL wifi router/adsl modem and 2 win
xp pcs each with a Belkin WiFi nic installed. Both PC's can see the router,
and each other. Both PCs can happily connect to the big bad world thru the
Netgear router, and file/print sharing is no problem. However one of the
PC's intermittantly and seemingly randomly loses its connection to the
router, sometimes happens every couple of hours and other times it keeps its
connection overnight.

Strangely its the PC closest to the Router which normally holds it signal
strength at 100% thats having the problem. When this happens the only way to
reconnect is to repair the connection in the control panel as the Belkin
cards own utility refuses to see the router when it scans for a network.

Anybody had this problem before or any ideas??
Cheers
JT

 

[Mike Hyndman]

Hi,
I have an odd problem (well, to me it's odd)....

In our house we have a Netgear DG834G ADSL wifi router/adsl modem and 2 win
xp pcs each with a Belkin WiFi nic installed. Both PC's can see the router,
and each other. Both PCs can happily connect to the big bad world thru the
Netgear router, and file/print sharing is no problem. However one of the
PC's intermittantly and seemingly randomly loses its connection to the
router, sometimes happens every couple of hours and other times it keeps its
connection overnight.

Strangely its the PC closest to the Router which normally holds it signal
strength at 100% thats having the problem. When this happens the only way to
reconnect is to repair the connection in the control panel as the Belkin
cards own utility refuses to see the router when it scans for a network.

Anybody had this problem before or any ideas??

Taffy,

I have a similar set up, though all Belkin, and I also lose
connection occasionally. The only way I can regain it is to
unplug/replug the power lead from the WiFi router. Cable conections are
unaffected so it is something on the "ether"side. A mentioned it to
Belkin who suggested a driver update (no difference) or the unit could
be running hot. Didn't know why this should affect it though.
Not much help I know, but your are not alone.
Regards
Mike H

remove -bats- to reply

 

[James Todd]

I have a similar set up, though all Belkin, and I also lose
connection occasionally. The only way I can regain it is to
unplug/replug the power lead from the WiFi router. Cable conections are
unaffected so it is something on the "ether"side. A mentioned it to
Belkin who suggested a driver update (no difference) or the unit could
be running hot. Didn't know why this should affect it though.
Not much help I know, but your are not alone.
Regards
Mike H

remove -bats- to reply

cheers for the reply, good to know i'm not alone. now, after posting to this
group however, its been stable all day..... no doubt i'll wake up tomorrow
to find a different situation mind!