Another wireless problem thread

z0mbi3 · 27 Feb 2007 at 15:37

Sorry but I have to make one as I'm almost ready to go back to wires over this.

I have a US Robotics 9106 router that's always been fairly good to me. I went on holiday for 2 weeks a while back, came back and I've had nothing but trouble with it.

I've tried cycling the channels it uses but it's not making a difference. Today for example it hasn't dropped once on me. But yesterday it dropped at least 3 times.

Any one have any suggestions? My signal strength is usually full when these drops occur.

Andybtsn · 27 Feb 2007 at 15:41

Have you tried pinging a certain website constantyl and see if a pattern occurs? ie a certain time it drops connection to the next?

z0mbi3 · 27 Feb 2007 at 16:43

Well it just dropped 20 mins ago and it had been fine all day. All I'd been doing was using remote desktop. Funny thing is I could almost feel it lagging before it happened.

edit:

Sorry I forgot to mention that if the connection drops my wireless shows as local connection only with no internet, but I can't login to my router, don't even get a logon prompt. If I cycle the channel my wireless card uses the connection comes straight bakc in and works perfectly.

Andybtsn · 27 Feb 2007 at 16:52

I've had problems like this and it was a stupid fix.

Basically we use cable internet, so we had a cat5 going from the cable modem to the router, the net kept dropping out, we tried a new router to no avail, put old router back in and changed the cat5 cable going to the router, no fix. Put the new router in and a new cat5 and hey presto the net was fine and stopped dropping out!

So the router and cat5 managed to break..

Avalon · 27 Feb 2007 at 18:39

Anything in the logs and any chance this random short term loss could tie in with someone nukeing something in the microwave ?

z0mbi3 · 27 Feb 2007 at 21:34

Avalon said:
Anything in the logs and any chance this random short term loss could tie in with someone nukeing something in the microwave ?

See I was thinking it could be something like this. It was fine all day then 4:20 it dropped out. Got me thinking it could be someone coming in from work and turning something on.

I'm trying a different channel now and seeing what happens.