Posted: 6/28/2006 7:52:30 PM EDT
| I have SBC yahoo DSL. I have a wireless card in the laptop. It works great most of the time. It has worked fine for over a year. About every 3-4 mins, the WIRELESS crashes and it takes around 10 seconds to reconnect. Sometimes longer. On the PC which is plugged in through a patch cable to the modem; it (internet) never goes down...any ideas/suggestions???thanks. |
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First off, exactly what does the network look like? Does the desktop PC have a wireless card that is serving the laptop or is there a router that is wirelessly serving the laptop? If you can list the hardware involved in the wireless network, and the dsl modem I can tell you if there are any recent firmware upgrades or known issues. Time how long the connection remains active, and how long it goes down for. How regular is it? I will assume you have a router. It seems odd that it worked fine for so long and all the sudden is experiencing issues. A firmware upgrade usually fixes long standing problems with the hardware, not sudden stuff like this. The router may be messed up, and an upgrade may repair damage, but the problem may not be the router at all. Lacking an upgrade, reflashing the old firmware can help to. You will need to reset all your security settings and such, so make sure you write that down. Have you tried restarting the router? They are complex micro controllers running embedded software (many can run small linux distros!), so they are vulnerable to bugs and faults in programming. Just like a PC, the occasional reset can clear that crap out. I've seen issues surrounding worms/virus that generate so much traffic that it can overwhelm wireless connection error correction causing a restart of the session. How confident are you that the laptop is 'clean'? Try running a virus scan and adware scan. Dollars to Pesos you find something, and removing it fixes the problem. Interference can be an issue, but not a huge one. The only place I've seen interference be a real problem was in a college dorm, where microwaves, cell phones, portable phones and the campus radio station where all running. A lot of this stuff operates in the same frequency range as wireless networks, but it takes a lot of noise to swamp a good network signal. If a military base set up shop next to you and started playing with alien radio gear it might be the source of your problem. Short of that, the problem probably is hardware or software related. -Local |
One motorola or uniden wireless phone can completely drown out a wireless router, without any problem what-so-ever. |