- Dec 21, 2000
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Hey guys! My girlfriend and I got an apartment together recently and wireless is the cleanest way to provide signal into the computer room. The distance from the WAP to the computers is probably 20ft at best.
I've had a Linksys 1.1 hardware WRT54G for at least a year now, or there abouts. I used it at home without issues and experienced no problems. I did have some laptops hooked up to the wireless portion of the router, but nothing for a long extended period of time. I picked up a pair of WMP54G Linksys cards for our desktop computers (big mistake, I now know that USB adapters are the way to go for the best signal and farthest distance). Anyways, the cards connect to the router just fine, WEP128-bit going and MAC address filtering using PERMIT ONLY rules and the cards work fine, for the most part.
Every now and then, the cards will kind of 'disconnect' from the router and have to sync back up with the WRT54G to get a connection again. This takes about 5-10 seconds or what seems to be the average connect time. What would cause the cards to disconnect? Is it the WEP?
Also, when downloading, every 60 seconds and I mean every 60 seconds (you can set a watch to the consistency) the transfer will come to a halt and pause for 3 seconds before the transfer begins to commence. This makes the connection 'jittery' and can be a PITA to play Counter-Strike on as it creates a massive amount of packet loss and I die a lot because of this.
I've got a spare Linksys WUSB USB 802.11b wireless card that I've tried as well and have had the same results in my troubleshooting. I've also upgraded my Linksys router to the Alchemy version from Sveasoft and have reconfigured it similarly to the way I had the default Linksys firmware setup. The only way to get around this problem is to hardwire the room with CAT5, which is kind of nasty because we have CAT5 running along some door frames.
Is there any kind of fix I should be looking for? Is there any kind of security feature that I might have enabled/disabled that would cause such scenarios? The cards in the machine get 'EXCELLENT' ratings by Windows XP SP2 Zero config utilities, so signal strength shouldn't be an issue. Also, with the Alchemy firmware, I boosted the xmit rate to 150mw from the default 28mw. No dice.
Can anyone shine some light as to what my problem might be? Did I just waste $80 on our new cards?
Thanks for ANY suggestions that might be a solution to our problem.
EDIT: We're using DHCP w/o assigned IP addresses.
I've had a Linksys 1.1 hardware WRT54G for at least a year now, or there abouts. I used it at home without issues and experienced no problems. I did have some laptops hooked up to the wireless portion of the router, but nothing for a long extended period of time. I picked up a pair of WMP54G Linksys cards for our desktop computers (big mistake, I now know that USB adapters are the way to go for the best signal and farthest distance). Anyways, the cards connect to the router just fine, WEP128-bit going and MAC address filtering using PERMIT ONLY rules and the cards work fine, for the most part.
Every now and then, the cards will kind of 'disconnect' from the router and have to sync back up with the WRT54G to get a connection again. This takes about 5-10 seconds or what seems to be the average connect time. What would cause the cards to disconnect? Is it the WEP?
Also, when downloading, every 60 seconds and I mean every 60 seconds (you can set a watch to the consistency) the transfer will come to a halt and pause for 3 seconds before the transfer begins to commence. This makes the connection 'jittery' and can be a PITA to play Counter-Strike on as it creates a massive amount of packet loss and I die a lot because of this.
I've got a spare Linksys WUSB USB 802.11b wireless card that I've tried as well and have had the same results in my troubleshooting. I've also upgraded my Linksys router to the Alchemy version from Sveasoft and have reconfigured it similarly to the way I had the default Linksys firmware setup. The only way to get around this problem is to hardwire the room with CAT5, which is kind of nasty because we have CAT5 running along some door frames.
Is there any kind of fix I should be looking for? Is there any kind of security feature that I might have enabled/disabled that would cause such scenarios? The cards in the machine get 'EXCELLENT' ratings by Windows XP SP2 Zero config utilities, so signal strength shouldn't be an issue. Also, with the Alchemy firmware, I boosted the xmit rate to 150mw from the default 28mw. No dice.
Can anyone shine some light as to what my problem might be? Did I just waste $80 on our new cards?
Thanks for ANY suggestions that might be a solution to our problem.
EDIT: We're using DHCP w/o assigned IP addresses.
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