Regular "hiccups" in wireless connectivity?

[gopunk]

hi, i was using my laptop and it's 802.11b wireless capabilities on a wireless network today, and every 6-7 minutes it would drop the connection then immediately pick it back up again. the signal is not weak from what i can tell, it always is at excellent or good or something like that. any idea what it could be? my laptop works fine on other networks (at least it doesn't have this problem)...

 

[Abzstrak]

probably a crappy driver for the card, a crappy card or a crappy router.... any of it linksys by any chance?? ;-)

 

[saxophonoia]

This was happening to one of my friends a while back.....i would like to know the culprit of this also.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Abzstrak
probably a crappy driver for the card, a crappy card or a crappy router.... any of it linksys by any chance?? ;-)

i have no idea what the access point is, but my card is cisco

 

[Abzstrak]

does it happn on all acces points? or just one? the cisco is a cardbus card right? if so most laptops have only one slot thats compliant, and the other is not.... maybe try switching PCMCIA slots?

drivers and firmware up to date on the card?

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Abzstrak
does it happn on all acces points? or just one? the cisco is a cardbus card right? if so most laptops have only one slot thats compliant, and the other is not.... maybe try switching PCMCIA slots?

drivers and firmware up to date on the card?

it only happens for this one access point... i'm not sure what the cisco card is, it's minipci though, it is under the keyboard afaik

 

[InlineFive]

Well you've already answered that it's the access point. And probably there isn't anything you can do about it.

-POr

 

[spidey07]

this happens all the time when there is something else in the frequency range. Try changing the channel on the access point to 1, 4, 8, or 11.