At my house I've got a 5 year old gateway that s pretty much my mom's now which she just uses for internet and email. however, ever since i set up our home LAN that computer has always tough to come along. All the computer are behind a Linksys WRT54G router. My desktop is the only computer wired in. My laptop, along with my dad's and my brother's, plus the old Gateway are connected wirelessly. The gateway obviously needed a wireless adapter, and at first there was a Linksys PCI one in there. But the signal always sucked and kept getting dropped, and then the antenna broke off, so I swapped it out with a Netgear WG111 usb adapter. Now it says I need usb 2.0, but since the gateway it so old its only got 1.1. The usb adapter works on the gateway, but there are still the same problems as before with the connection getting dropped all the time. Now the gateway is on the other side of the house, but so is my brother's room, and his laptop gets the signal fine, and today I even took my laptop over there turned off its built in wireless and used the netgear usb which worked fine. Now on this gateway I've tried almost everything. I've reinstalled WinXP a few times too, just to try to fix these problems. I am even debating putting a fedora partition on there to see if i can get a better wireless expenience using Linux. Anyone have any suggestions on what approach to take next.
EDIT: when i say gateway in this post i mean the PC and not the router, just to clear up any confusion
EDIT: when i say gateway in this post i mean the PC and not the router, just to clear up any confusion
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