heh... beats me...

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
I have crashing issues, and it seems to resolve around my USB Wireless Network Adapter.

Here's the story, my cable has been cut off, so I am leeching(with permission) off a friends/neighbors WAP. The cable company cut our line for some reason thinking I told them we want to stop our service, when all I wanted was to switch the name the account was under.

Anyways, they can't be out to fix their problem for a week becuase of these damned dirty hurricanes. So I had to take out a crappy Linksys 802.11b Wireless USB Network Adapter and plug it in. It installed itself and I was connected to the internet. I put on the Windows Firewall Protection just in case, I don't know how he has his WAP done, but it is unsecured.

However, my system will "stall" for a moment every now and then... then resume, however, I have been printing some documentation out, and the stalls will stop the printer(which is also USB).

Dunno if this is some kind of issue easily resolved, I just thought about going into the device properties and seeing if there is some sort of power management thing, and it did, I turned that off and maybe that will work. If not, I should know soon enough.

TIA

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Powermanagement didn't work, as soon as I hit the submit button, it did it again.

    Just to restate, it's not a full crash, but a "stall".
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Maybe you could try a diffrent firewall program.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    It happens even without any firewall...
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Crappy drivers or too much distance? Do you have a internal wireless nic you could try? If they're really good friends, take your pc over there, connect it and see if you still have the problem. :D
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    If I had a wireless PCI device, I wouldn't even consider the USB alternative... I don't even like wireless networks, just a whole new mess of problems as if there weren't enough problems as is.

    Oddly, it just disconnected and reconnected without the stall this time, while typing for this post. Gotta be the USB... I'll try a couple more things later.
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