Originally posted by johnwilliams474:
but ive had wireless for a long time now and unless your gonna
spend alot of money and get profesinal wirless routers and cards like the big companys do your gonna get disconnects i often loose the signil in my house in the same room it gets annoying sometimes i only use wirless when i need to
Probably using the 802.11b or g ... lots of interference in residential areas on the 2.4ghz range...including microwave ovens.
Ensure that your antenna is correctly attached (tighten it), change your frequency channel, and ensure that your AP is nowhere near your main fusebox, or any other 2-phase cables.
If you're still getting disconnects, look at your hardware ... old linksys pre the cisco buy-out is garbage. D-Link wireless, likewise, is garbage. Netgear and new Linksys make very apt hardware for small use. PCI wireless cards are not great either, the antenna's are often hidden away, incorrectly rotated, and right next to the power-suppy and sometimes battery-UPS devices. If you have a laptop and the wireless card is a PCMCIA with-out an 'external' antenna (ie just the black plastic at the end), dump it too. Range is probably limited a lot with this. I've sold a number of WUSB54G and WUSB54GS Linksys adpators with very positive results.
If interference is more your problem, on the 2.4 band, go to 802.11a.
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