I bought a Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless 802.11g router and a USB F5D7050 802.11g adapter for my PC and I'm having a weird problem with the adapter. I get dropped packets when I run ping tests that sort of show some consistency. Whenever I transfer files between the PC and my Powerbook w/ an Airport Extreme card, after a brief period, the connection will just die on the PC and I won't be able to rejoin or reconnect without rebooting. I can't properly shut down either, I have to manually press the Reset Button after clicking restart.
On the Powerbook however, there's no packet loss at all, even after the PC's connection dies, the mac can still surf the net and do whatever with its connection. So with that, I've eliminated the router as the source of the problem. Is there some setting I'm missing in windows perhaps that would stop this packet dropping on the PC. Its roughly dropping 1 packet out of every 50-60 tries, sometimes it'll do 2 out of 50-60 but mostly its 1.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also last note, the powerbook is roughly equal distance from the wireless router. So I don't htink its a distance issue either.
On the Powerbook however, there's no packet loss at all, even after the PC's connection dies, the mac can still surf the net and do whatever with its connection. So with that, I've eliminated the router as the source of the problem. Is there some setting I'm missing in windows perhaps that would stop this packet dropping on the PC. Its roughly dropping 1 packet out of every 50-60 tries, sometimes it'll do 2 out of 50-60 but mostly its 1.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also last note, the powerbook is roughly equal distance from the wireless router. So I don't htink its a distance issue either.
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