Regular Intermittent packet loss over Linksys Wireless LAN

[jasonarm]

Hopefully someone out there can shed some light on this. I am running
a Linksys wireless LAN (BEFW11S4 WAP and WUSB11 ver 2.6 USB adapter
card)under Windows XP. Whenever I try to stream traffic over the
network (eg. playing music on one machine that is stored on another) I
get very regular, intermittent packet loss. This is verified by using
Windows Task Manager (Networking Tab) for a graphical representation
of my traffic, as well as a continuous ping from one box to the other.
Both tools show that every 45sec-1 min, the traffic will drop to 0
packets for about 2-2.5 seconds, then resume. There is nothing else
passing traffic over the network, and these are the only 2 boxes on
the network. This does not appear to be a buffering issue, since it is
the traffic that is dropping and not an application showing problems.
Does anyone have any insight into why this may be happening?? Any
suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thx, J

 

[jim a]

I too am using the usb 2.6 version wireless adapter to connect onto the
internet,,, and when I do online gaming I get the disruption about every
45 seconds to one minute. If I use a wired connection on my network to
connect through the router I do not have this problem... Hopefully
someone will have a suggestion so I can continue to use the wireless
connection.

Jim