Odd wireless drop [Archive]

flyrice

7 Jan 2005, 5:36am

So in my family room, I have a PC setup with an 802.11g Linksys PCI wireless card. Sometimes, it will never get a signal (the PC is about 15 ft away from the router and one wall in the way). When I reboot the PC, the signal's fine.

It's not a big deal, but I'd like to know if you guys have any solutions to keep that signal strong.

As for interference, I can't think of any. There's one cordless phone about 5-10 ft from the family PC, that's about it.

maxanon

7 Jan 2005, 3:06pm

It doesn't seem to be a hardware issue since the reboot regains the signal. How long does the signal stay strong? It could be an issue with XP Zero Config.

flyrice

7 Jan 2005, 8:22pm

The signal usually goes at 24 Mbps with a good to excellent strength.

maxanon

7 Jan 2005, 9:04pm

when does it normally die?

TheLostSwede

7 Jan 2005, 9:11pm

Any microwave ovens nearby?

Do you both have a modem and a router/switch or is it all built in?

flyrice

8 Jan 2005, 2:57am

It dies when the WinXP boots. In other words, it either works or it doesn't (and, the good thing is that it only dies on about 1 out of every 15 boots and rebooting the system usually fixes the problem).

It's an all-in-one wireless router (Linksys WRT54G).