Wi-Fi issues
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my coworker and I are having similar problems. He recently bought a USB wireless device (linksys) and was trying to connect to the Net in his house. Although it looks like he is connected (IP address and signal strenght look good), he cannot get onto the Net. His home-base station is running XP. His laptop is running Win2000. He has tried another XP with success. Likewise, I have problems from time-time accessing Wi-Fi at public hotspots. I have a Belkin 802.11b network card. I am running an old Win98SE. Majority of time I can connect. But sometimes, I get good IP and signal, but same inability to access the Net (this is random and usually a Restart/several tries resolves this.) Is there some setting or configuration we should be looking into? Default (hard code) IP addresses? Puzzled, Johnny
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my coworker and I are having similar problems. He recently bought a USB wireless device (linksys) and was trying to connect to the Net in his house. Although it looks like he is connected (IP address and signal strenght look good), he cannot get onto the Net. His home-base station is running XP. His laptop is running Win2000. He has tried another XP with success. Likewise, I have problems from time-time accessing Wi-Fi at public hotspots. I have a Belkin 802.11b network card. I am running an old Win98SE. Majority of time I can connect. But sometimes, I get good IP and signal, but same inability to access the Net (this is random and usually a Restart/several tries resolves this.) Is there some setting or configuration we should be looking into? Default (hard code) IP addresses? Puzzled, Johnny
If your colleague is running his router in the default Wi-Fi configuration, he might want to try using a different channel and disabling all manufacturer-specific "enhancements". Otherwise, I just would not trust the signal quality indicator in either Windows or the packaged software: I had the exact same problem. My connection would stall from time to time, throughput was unacceptable, connection broke several times. I constantly had an indicated "excellent" signal quality. Moving the AP a few meters solved that problem. A friend of mine came over with some quality measuring equipment: The phone base station was interferring with my connection.
Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
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If your colleague is running his router in the default Wi-Fi configuration, he might want to try using a different channel and disabling all manufacturer-specific "enhancements". Otherwise, I just would not trust the signal quality indicator in either Windows or the packaged software: I had the exact same problem. My connection would stall from time to time, throughput was unacceptable, connection broke several times. I constantly had an indicated "excellent" signal quality. Moving the AP a few meters solved that problem. A friend of mine came over with some quality measuring equipment: The phone base station was interferring with my connection.
Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
yuuuuhoooo , another LINKSYS isssue . i think sebastian had picked up very goood point about channel...most of the time it shoud work ...but just in case if no go ... follow these steps : open LINKSYS set up page in wireless tab--- 1)put the channel as 11 2)change ssid---make it as simple as u can ---abcdef 3)disable the wireless security go to advance wireless settings : 4)make becon interval as 100 5)RTS : 2304 6)fragmentation :2304 7)DTIM : if 1 select 3 , if 3 select 1 8)Frame Burst: Enable make sure every time u make any changes in any page ---click on save settings if its the router settings issue -- yr problem is solved if still no go --- we need to upgrade the firmware for the router from LINKSYS site....:rose:
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my coworker and I are having similar problems. He recently bought a USB wireless device (linksys) and was trying to connect to the Net in his house. Although it looks like he is connected (IP address and signal strenght look good), he cannot get onto the Net. His home-base station is running XP. His laptop is running Win2000. He has tried another XP with success. Likewise, I have problems from time-time accessing Wi-Fi at public hotspots. I have a Belkin 802.11b network card. I am running an old Win98SE. Majority of time I can connect. But sometimes, I get good IP and signal, but same inability to access the Net (this is random and usually a Restart/several tries resolves this.) Is there some setting or configuration we should be looking into? Default (hard code) IP addresses? Puzzled, Johnny
My guess is the DHCP server on the router is still enabled and is telling the clients that it's the default gateway onto the internet. Which is to say the LAN IP of the wireless router is being set by it's DHCP server as the DEFAULT GATEWAY to DHCP clients. This isn't true. The default gateway should be the LAN IP of your DSL/Cable modem. Tell me the LAN IP of your wireless router then do an IPCONFIG /ALL on one of the affected machines. Please note if you are cable connecting your LAN into the WAN port of the router and your LAN and the wireless router are on the same subnet your dead in the water. If your LAN from the ISP is 192.168.0.X and your wireless routers LAN is 192.168.0.X nothing will work for the wireless LAN side. They need to be in different subnets. 192.168.1.X as an example.