Odd wireless drop

flyriceflyrice
edited January 2005 in Science & Tech
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.

Comments

  • maxanonmaxanon Montreal
    edited January 2005
    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.
  • flyriceflyrice
    edited January 2005
    The signal usually goes at 24 Mbps with a good to excellent strength.
  • maxanonmaxanon Montreal
    edited January 2005
    when does it normally die?
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Any microwave ovens nearby?

    Do you both have a modem and a router/switch or is it all built in?
  • flyriceflyrice
    edited January 2005
    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).
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