Help! Anyone hear static when wireless computer is sending or receiving?

[thebestMAX]

Just hooked up my wireless network and when I send or receive on my laptop I hear a lot of clicking and popping and on downloads it becomes a low roar. Really annoying.

Microsoft card and Compaq Presario1200 laptop. (Yeah, I know)

Anything I can do to stop this? Could it be a bad network adapter card? Am I just too close to the base station? (About 10 feet now)

Any help or suggestion appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Nighthawk69]

You hear this from the card? Wow, I've never heard of that before. Mine are all silent... maybe it's because the card is Microsoft?

Just kidding, but seriously, I don't think it should be making any noise... maybe it's something else, like the HDD?

 

[SaigonK]

I had this problem with my wife's desktop on her desk.
Each time the card would start transferring large amounts of continous data over the wireless frequency I would hear a slight hum form the machine.
it was unnoticeable during the day with everyone in the house, but at night it was enough that i could hear it.

I cured it by moving the anntena around abit and moving the wires on the back of the PC from the sound card to the speakers away form the anntenae.

 

[ktwebb]

It's not completely uncommon. Used to see if every once in a while on various laptop makes and configurations. Mostly Cisco cards but I have seen it on Lucent cards as well. Messing with power saving settings in the BIOS fixed it on one model laptop, but that was only a fix for that particular model though. Worth a shot for you. ACPI and any power saving settings you have in the BIOS. Doubt it will work but wtf.

 

[thebestMAX]

 

[thebestMAX]

Thanks for the answers!!!!!

Installed the card on my friends computer and no problem so I guess that this is computer specific.

May try another type card or even the desktop usb type adapter as I dont travel with the Compaq much.

BTW, sound definately came out of speakers.

Thanks again to all who bothered to try to help.