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Wireless has spotty connection for one user

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wfbberzerker

Lifer
I'm using a linksys WRT54GL with the tomato 1.23 firmware. right now, there's one wired connection, and 5 wireless connections (4 pc's, 1 wii). the connection works fine for all the devices except one laptop. it will connect to the wireless without trouble, but cannot access the internet for several minutes. after some time, the internet works fine. if i try connecting it to another wireless network nearby, it connects fine and the internet works immediately, but every time i connect to our network, it has that issue.

it's only for this one laptop, all the other computers that use wireless (which are also all laptops), don't have any problems connecting or using the internet at all.

the laptop in question is about 8 feet from the router and has an excellent connection quality, so i'm thinking that's not the issue. also, i looked through the settings on the router, and i can't think of anything that may be causing it on the router's end, i do have that laptop assigned a static ip based on it's mac address, so i know there aren't any conflicts there.

any ideas?

thanks in advance!
 
Sounds like interference or low signal to noise ratio. Make sure the antennas on the router are pointed straight up and down and change channels to 1, 6, 11. Those bars are pretty much useless for troubleshooting and don't actually reflect the quality of your signal.
 
I was having a similar problem when I went home for winter break. There's a FiOS Actiontec router to hand out IPs with a WRT54G v5 acting as a WPA protected access point. My computer would take forever to connect or not connect at all. Powering down the router and access point and waiting a minute or two before plugging them back in fixed it right up.

Though, it could be something completely different in your case.
 
Originally posted by: NuroMancer
Have you tried allowing the DHCP server to give the laptop an IP address?

Does this produce the same result?
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yes, it had been obtaining the ip address using dhcp, and it was only after this problem started that i tried assigning it a static ip (as i thought there might be a conflict with another device's ip address).

one other thing to note: after connecting to the wireless, while the internet is not working, the computer cannot connect to the router itself either.

spidey and engineer: i made sure the antennas were both pointed up, and i changed the channel to 1 (it had the lowest signal noise from other wlans in the area). i haven't asked my roommate if it's any better, i will the next time i see her, and i will find out what type of laptop/wireless it has.
 
The reason I ask is that Tomato flashed routers have issues with certain Intel cards. Toastman at Linksysinfo.org posted a fix that requires you to telnet into the router (login: root ; password: regular router password ) and do the following....

For the problem where Intel 2100, 2200BG, and 3945ABG cards can't associate with the router. Telnet to the router, log in and enter the following lines:

nvram set wl_reg_mode=off
nvram set wl0_reg_mode=off*
nvram commit
reboot
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Apart from that get latest drivers, use the client wireless utility and of course - make sure the antennas are plugged into the card.
 
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