wireless pci card

[WeiWei]

Hey guys,

I juz got a wireless pci card. It works ok, just that occasionally, I am disconnected.

I was wondering if this has anything to do with the interferece from my comp and is there any way to overcome this ?

Thanks

 

[boyRacer]

Whats the signal strength?

 

[jdogg707]

Putting the system higher up and preferrably in a clear path to the router/access point is a good way to improve signal strength. You may also want to add a bigger/better antenna onto your router/access point or even your Wireless PCI Card.

 

[WeiWei]

The funny thing here is that the signal strength is usually excellent, just that it occasionally just disconnects and is unable to pick up the signal, and then, sometimes immediately, it picks it up, and the signal strength is excellent again.

Is my pci card faulty ?

My AP is a D-Link 614+, and I have another PC card for a notebook which is a D-Link too and it works perfect.

 

[vegetation]

Eliminate the possibility of poor signal strength by placing the AP right near your PCI antenna. If the problem goes away then the culprit is just crappy signal. If you still get dropped and rule out interference from other 2.4GHz sources then all I can say is your wireless card is just no good. Try a different one.

 

[eLinux]

Originally posted by: vegetation
Eliminate the possibility of poor signal strength by placing the AP right near your PCI antenna. If the problem goes away then the culprit is just crappy signal. If you still get dropped and rule out interference from other 2.4GHz sources then all I can say is your wireless card is just no good. Try a different one.

I was going to mention interferance, too... Do you have any corless phones that use the 2.4ghz band?

Just a though... 🙂