Wireless connect keeps crapping out...

[DVad3r]

I have a wireless setup at my home. It keeps losing connectivity all the time. Sometimes I turn on my PC and there's nothing so I go to repair the wireless network connection, it disables and renables my wireless network connection, and then it usually works from there, but it has the random loss of connectivity where I have to do the whole process again.

At first I thought it was because my router was all the way on the other side of my apartment and the walls and range was what was making me loose my connection. So I relocated my router to about 8 feet away from my computer. The connection seems to be stronger, as in faster downloads etc, but I still get disconnected etc....

What can I do to fix this?

 

[nweaver]

1. if useing Netgear's config utility, disable Wirless Zero Config
2. use Netstumbler to find the most open channel. You should try and be 4 channels away from the nearest AP (ideally). It's also better to share a channel then be 2 channels away (as then it's "noise" instead of channel load")
3. turn off all security and test to see if that's the issue. If it works, step up security one thing at a time (i.e. turn SSID off, test, mac authentication on, test, wep 40, test, wep128, test, etc until you reach your desired security setting)