Cut off from wireless network

PhatPhish

PhatPhish

PhatPhish

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Installed a Belkin 802.11g wireless card on my new system on Wednesday, and find myself disconnected from the network at random intervals.

However I don't think there is an error with the connection or card as such, as the problem is resolved by right clicking the wireless connection icon in the task bar and selecting repair.

Screen of network connections
 
Have you only got one pc connected wirelessly? If not then do the other pcs get disconnected at random intervals. I think it could be the card, I had a belkin wireless card once and it would always disconnect, truly rubbish piece of kit.
 
Yeah, try upgrading the drivers; that can often sort out connection dropping issues. Belkin don't have the best reputation when it comes to wireless networking, however ;)
 
Update the drivers but if the other wireless pcs dont get booted off then I would say that you have a problem with your Belkin card.
 
I had this EXACT same problem. Turns out a neighbour had wireless too and must've been running it on the same channel thus interfering with my network. I changed the channel on both the card and the router and it's worked fine since. :D I tried the drivers prior to this, but to no avail, so try changing the channels first.
 
Yeah I know there's a couple other wireless networks around, although they're not picked up by this card.

Right, so how do you change the channels? :p
 
It should be in the router settings somewhere (I don't know for yours, somewhere in the wireless bit obviously :S) and for the card bring up the connection, right click and select properties, then click configure and select the advanced tab. Mine has a list of different values that can be changed. Set the channel to whatever you like, but remember to either do the router FIRST, or connect to the router afterwards via a cable as you wont be able to connect to the router once you've changed channels. Hope this helps.

:EDIT: also try setting some of the options that concern power to the maximum possible. I had issues when power saving was turned - my signal would drop. This could be causing cuts too.
 
Had a similar problem with the same card. After a lot of investigating I discovered that the cards are actually manufactured by a company called Ralink. I managed to find the Ralink software. On one pc it sorted the problems totally. But on the other pc it wouldn't work at all. I think the card is actually knackered.
 
No-One said:
Had a similar problem with the same card. After a lot of investigating I discovered that the cards are actually manufactured by a company called Ralink. I managed to find the Ralink software. On one pc it sorted the problems totally. But on the other pc it wouldn't work at all. I think the card is actually knackered.
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Sounds like a solution.

You still got a link for the download per chance?
 
Belkin are a bit cheap. I had problems getting WPA to work on an 18month old laptop with 256MB RAM. WEP worked fine, but WPA just would not logon.

With networking gear, like many things, you get what you pay for.

When trying to pick a different channel, you may want to install "NetStumbler" as this will allow you to see which channel numbers your neighbours are actually using. When I did this in my house, my signal strength doubled.
 
PhatPhish said:
Right, I'm confused as to which driver I should download?

I'm guessing it's the 11g-RT2500 PCI one dated 2005/04/25
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Depends which card you have. You might have to use a bit of trial and error.
 
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