MichaelAlexander
Junior Member
Okay, I'm pretty new to wireless networking. I've helped make several wired networks when I was in school (I was part of an after school "club" that was basically cheap labor to fix the schools computers in exchange for all the get out of class free passes I could ever want - but this was before the college monster started eatting my soul). What I am attempting to do is wire a win2k desktop (acting as server - always on) to a linksys wireless 4-port broadband router. The router goes to a cable modem and, in theory, to my laptop. If I use my laptops ethernet, it works fine - but I want to use my wireless card. The card works, one of my friends used it in his laptop to get to his home network to test it. The slot reads other cards fine and their are no driver problems on my winME laptop with anything. I have checked and double checked all the wireless settings on the router and laptop card. They are the same. Same encryption-bit, passcode, and everything else. I get a constant Rx byte rate of 500 to 1000 and no Tx bit rate except for rare, random jumps to around 1000 for about two seconds which don't seem to be doing anything. They are three feet from eachother, tops, through the air. Both are Linksys. Does anyone know why these aren't working? Is there some mean wireless trick I might have missed?
