Wifi Woes

Azraeluk

Azraeluk

Azraeluk

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Hi Guys

Having some problems with my home wifi and wanted to pick your brians.

Setup is

Netgear 834g v2 WIFI on CH11 with WPA on.
Belkin f5d7000 PCI running on Vista 64.

Distance between router and PC is 4-5 meters max, in a newish build house with thin walls :).

When I connect to downstairs using wifi I get packet loss every now and again on my pings and also some randomly high ping times.

I have wandered round my house with my G4 Powerbook constantly pinging my router and it never skips a beat in terms of dropping packets.

I have tried all the usual steps of changing channel and dropping WPA off but nothing seems to help.

I am guessing that the Belkin card is the problem but just wanted to make sure with other people before I potentially waste some cash on a new WIFI card.

If I am gunna get a new WIFI card which one should I look at.

Im not sure whats more annoying the packet loss or the random tunnell adaptors that vista decides I need.

Cheers in advance.
 
Belkin wifi kit hs a reputation for being poor. In houses with thin walls microwave ovens can also cause ping spikes etc, though I'd bet if you put a decent wifi card in there (by that I mean one with good 64bit drivers) it'll be fine.
 
Skidilliplop said:
Belkin wifi kit hs a reputation for being poor. In houses with thin walls microwave ovens can also cause ping spikes etc, though I'd bet if you put a decent wifi card in there (by that I mean one with good 64bit drivers) it'll be fine.
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News to me. My belkin picks up my signal really well.
I have a usb one though, so its on a 1m cable and thus i can move it around for a better signal. BUT, i use it on every new build i do to get all windows updates and its never let me down tbh.
Using a Linkysy WRT54GS router btw, in the loft. Wireless pc is downstairs.
As skid says though, it could be the support for 64-bit drivers that Belkin are letting you down on.
 
I think your right, Im off to the purple shirts at lunch to try a Netgear G card out.

I never had issues before with a Zyxel card sadly theres no vista drivers.

:(
 
You are generally better off getting adpater and router from the same vendor. Better still if you can match the product series, to make the most of all features available on the router like propriatory speed and range boosts.
 
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