Wireless connectivity issue

edited May 2005 in Science & Tech
I've had this issue at my house for a while:

When I connect to the wireless network, it will connect fine, but eventually it drops the connection. It will pick it back up fine.

This *seems* to coincide with my laptop finding my neighbor's wireless SSID. I've tried changing the wireless channel, to no avail. (I've tried 1, 6, and 11)

The neighbor's network is not preferred and my network is.

Any thoughts on how best to stabilize the connection?

I'm using:
a Dlink DI-614+ (128bit WEP key, no MAC filtering, SSID broadcast on)
a Gateway 200XL Centrino Laptop (using XP's management tools, currently SP1, upgrading as I type to SP2)

Comments

  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited May 2005
    Welcome to the world of d-link
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited May 2005
    i've found and heard d-link to be just fine. how far away is the router?
  • edited May 2005
    I heard (from a few other sources) that DLink might not be helping the case any, so I bought a Linksys wrt54gs today at Best Buy. So far, it seems to have solved the problem.

    Just for reference, the distance to the router was never very far. The router was on the ground floor, pretty near the center of the house. It would drop upstairs, ground floor, or in the basement. I got the router as part of a trade (around X-Mas, i think.) It might not be a bad thing about DLink, but, I'd always had Linksys before and now my new Linksys seems to be working much better.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited May 2005
    hmm.. ok
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited May 2005
    tefleming wrote:
    I heard (from a few other sources) that DLink might not be helping the case any, so I bought a Linksys wrt54gs today at Best Buy. So far, it seems to have solved the problem.

    Just for reference, the distance to the router was never very far. The router was on the ground floor, pretty near the center of the house. It would drop upstairs, ground floor, or in the basement. I got the router as part of a trade (around X-Mas, i think.) It might not be a bad thing about DLink, but, I'd always had Linksys before and now my new Linksys seems to be working much better.
    You goina hack that to the full kernel ?

    hmm.. ok

    Told you it was d-links falt. There the least relieable router brand I have encountered :P.
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