Anyone in here have Verizon DSL for their ISP?

[purbeast0]

I hooked mine up last night, and we only have 1 phone jack in our apartment. It's in the bedroom and my main PC is in the other room. There is a wall between the PC and the router, and it's about 25 feet or so physically away.

I went to the store yesterday and purchased linksys wireless PCI card for my PC. It was like $50 at compusa. Since my linksys router is fine I figured the card would be too.

However I installed it and the connection seems to be dropping out constantly or disconnecting for seconds then connecting again. Sometimes it takes a while to load webpages and it will just try to load one and hang, then I will have to refresh it to get it to load again.

Also when downloading stuff, someitmes it'll be real good at like 350Kb/sec downloading, then it'll just drop off to like 5Kb/sec and then to 0 for a few seconds, then go back up.

Is all this common? I'm wondering if this is a problem with the router they give you and that maybe it's a crappy router. Can you hook up your own router to their router and use that instead? Would that make a big difference or is this all just part of wireless connections.

 

[LS20]

i have the combo wireless router w/ modem.. a speedstream 3200 somethingorrather... works solid

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: LS20
i have the combo wireless router w/ modem.. a speedstream 3200 somethingorrather... works solid

I have the versalink one.

Could having a few local wireless connections on the same channel have anything to do with it? I noticed when I view wireless networsk in the area, there are like 3 or 4 on channel 6, and that's what channel mine is on.

 

[LS20]

that shouldnt be it

 

[purbeast0]

I think I'm going to hookup my wireless router to it and see if I get a better connection w/my wireless router than their equipment.

 

[GregGreen]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: LS20
i have the combo wireless router w/ modem.. a speedstream 3200 somethingorrather... works solid

I have the versalink one.

Could having a few local wireless connections on the same channel have anything to do with it? I noticed when I view wireless networsk in the area, there are like 3 or 4 on channel 6, and that's what channel mine is on.

YES! That could definitely cause some problems for you. Try 1 or 11. And you might get more responses in the "Networking" forum here.......

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: GregGreen

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: LS20
i have the combo wireless router w/ modem.. a speedstream 3200 somethingorrather... works solid

I have the versalink one.

Could having a few local wireless connections on the same channel have anything to do with it? I noticed when I view wireless networsk in the area, there are like 3 or 4 on channel 6, and that's what channel mine is on.

YES! That could definitely cause some problems for you. Try 1 or 11. And you might get more responses in the "Networking" forum here.......

Hey well last night I changed the channel to 11, and wow, it completely solved my problem

Now I'm constantly dling at like 350Kb/sec. It's the max I can get so I can't complain

(but it still sucks compared to the constant 900+Kb/sec I would get before )

 

[GregGreen]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: GregGreen

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: LS20
i have the combo wireless router w/ modem.. a speedstream 3200 somethingorrather... works solid

I have the versalink one.

Could having a few local wireless connections on the same channel have anything to do with it? I noticed when I view wireless networsk in the area, there are like 3 or 4 on channel 6, and that's what channel mine is on.

YES! That could definitely cause some problems for you. Try 1 or 11. And you might get more responses in the "Networking" forum here.......

Hey well last night I changed the channel to 11, and wow, it completely solved my problem

Now I'm constantly dling at like 350Kb/sec. It's the max I can get so I can't complain

(but it still sucks compared to the constant 900+Kb/sec I would get before )

When were you getting 900? I would try playing with it a little more if switching to wireless caused you to drop from 900 to 350kb/s. Even an 802.11b connection should be able to do much more than 350 -- close to 900 at least, if not higher

 

[thutmose3]

I have the actiontec bundle. The computer with the DSL is downstairs and two rooms to the right of the other computer in our house. I use the bottom one for getting demos and playing games, so I convinced my dad to switch the router and my brother has to use the extremely slow computer upstairs. That computer was made in 2001, plus I'm pretty sure the wireless barely reaches, so whenever I use that computer it takes very long to load anything, but is still reasonably fast.