dropped wireless connection

[pthors]

I'm running a wireless setup using a Linksys wireless WRT54G speedbooster router and a D-link DWL-G510 pci wireless card. The firmware is up-to-date on the router and I?m using D-link?s most recent driver and configuration utility. Every 20 to 30 minutes (randomly really) the connection will drop, and the only way to get it back is to reboot or disable/reenable the adapter. I?m currenty broadcasting SSID and using WEP, along with MAC permit. I?ve tried default settings, different channels, all sorts of different configurations the router will allow ? all resulting in the same problems. Just setting the bare minimum, no security whatsoever causes this problem. Additionally, I?ve tried allowing XP to manage the connection, which also doesn?t work. Does anyone have any thoughts about this - linksys has been less than helpful on the subject.
Thanks,
Patrick

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

Sounds nasty. Just a couple of ideas - though I don't know how effective they may be.

1. Have you tried (I expect you have) working with the router right next to the card to eleiminate any range issues?

2. Have you tried, if possible, putting the router and computer in a different building/environment to eliminate the possibility of intermittant EMF/radio interference?

Good luck,

Andy

 

[pthors]

I have placed the router next to the card, same problem. The interference idea I've heard, however I seem skeptical. Shouldn't the connection be reestablished after any interference has passed? It does work for a while, so any interference must come and go I would think. Let me know if you agree with this thought. If not, I'll move it somewhere else to test.
Patrick

 

[Cheetah8799]

I was testing some wireless equipment in my cousin's new apartment the other night and had issues like yours. Turns out there are some neighbors with wireless and are broadcasting their SSID names... one was 'linksys'...

Anyway. My laptop for some tried switching over to their network a couple times! Really weird. Only thing I could think of is that there are a lot of large trees all around the duplex she is in, and the other networks were mostly really flakey, but every once in a while they came through well. I'm guessing the signal was just getting through the leaves enough to mess with my laptop...

I suppose you might check for anything like what I experienced. Try running netstumbler and see what you can pick up for neighboring wlans.

 

[pthors]

Actually, my neighbor is broadcasting, however a different SSID and different channel, so I'm not really sure if this would affect anything. Does someone else broadcasting a SSID really cause these problems? I imagine people everywhere would be having similar problems with the number of wireless networks out there now.
Patirck

 

[Fencer128]

Originally posted by: pthors
I have placed the router next to the card, same problem. The interference idea I've heard, however I seem skeptical. Shouldn't the connection be reestablished after any interference has passed? It does work for a while, so any interference must come and go I would think. Let me know if you agree with this thought. If not, I'll move it somewhere else to test.
Patrick

Hi,

Your assumptions sound quite reasonable. One thing to note regarding re-establishing a connection - my DHCP server on my SOHO router (netgear WGT634U) sometimes doesn't reallocate me an IP address after a connection is dropped. There is a possibility I guess that this may be true of yours more often than not? I'm grasping at straws really. Your best but most annoying hope appears to be to keep hassling Linksys technical support.

Good luck and please post if this gets resolved,

Andy

 

[pthors]

Actually Andy, you inspired an idea - perhaps turn off DHCP, assign ip's by MAC. Thanks for the spark

 

[Cybordolphin]

Sounds like a driver problem to me...... let us know what you find.