Wireless problems

secret squire · 5 Feb 2006 at 14:00

Hi,

I have a cable and wireless, wireless adsl router, which has been mostly workign fine... however it seemed that next door were using it as well, and slowing the network down, so I put a password on it, which caused it to become massivley unstable, and drop connections left right and centre. I subsequently removed this, and have performed a full factory reset, but it continues to be unstable, and computers can't stay connected to it for more than about 5 minutes without losing connection.

Does anyone have any ideas???

HEEELP!!!

Regards,

SS

Skilldibop · 5 Feb 2006 at 15:58

What make of router is it. Certain models have been known to overheat with the load caused by encryption. It's possible continuous overheating could have permanently damaged it.
That or a faulty part that was on it's last legs has been pushed over the edge.

ants83 · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:54

sounds to me like a overheating issue.happened on my old netgear router. got a linksys no worries now!

errata · 5 Feb 2006 at 20:48

What model router and what type of security did you apply WEP or WPA etc