Evan said:
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.