Wireless connection constantly disconnecting...

[rikd]

Hi everyone,

Our wireless network is constantly dropping and disconnecting and is happening on all three computers in our house. We have to keep disabling and re-enabling the wireless connection in the network settings or reboot the router to reconnect.

We've tried three different routers, different wireless channels, disabling WEP, MAC address filtering, managing our connections by our wifi cards software and by letting windows manage it, pretty much everything we can think of and still no luck. We've even switched broadband providers!

Any ideas what's going on? I've never had this problem before and works fine hard wired with ethernet.

Thanks,

Rik

 

[spidey07]

Sounds like interferrence. Do you have any other devices using the 2.4 Ghz spectrum?

Normally just changing channels to 1, 6 or 11 resolves this but it sounds like you've tried this.

 

[LightninTrip]

sounds like you are getting inteference...do you have any wireless devices in the house or in close proximity to the router, like maybe a cordless phone...

 

[rikd]

There are no other wireless devices in the house and we don't have a cordless phone.

There are two other nearby wifi devices I can just about pick up which are on channel 11 and 1 so you'd have thought channel 6 was a good bet but no!

What's the deal with the other channels - e.g. 3?

Think we're going to have to go ethernet which is really frustrating 🙁

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Which three routers have you used? Make, model, and firmware if possible.

If they were all D-Link or other cheap brands, "three different piles of crap still smell pretty much the same."

- M4H

 

[rikd]

One is a Netgear, one is a Lynxis and the other was the free one with BeThere broadband.

I will report back with more info soon.

 

[JackMDS]

Is it acting out like this if the Wireless Client is few feet away from the Wireless Router?

 

[rikd]

Yeah it happens even if the wireless router is right next to the wifi card.