Wireless question (Access point related)

[mrk]

Hi guys, here's a quick question maybe someone can assist with

My setup is currently like this:

WRT54GL
> 2x Wired PCs
>> 2x Wireless PCs

I have a WMP54G PCI card installed on my PC and I am certain that it is interfering with my MX Revolution as whenever heavy wireless traffic begins to transfer at random times the mouse pointer will lag for about 2-3 seconds. this only seems to occur when download speed exceeds 2mB/s as well from my observations.

I have had a MX1000 before that never exhibited any such issues but that was connected via PS/2 whereas the MX Rev is USB (new mobo only has 1x PS/2 port for a KB) - I am guessing a issue arises here where the wifi card interfers with *** USB dongle (heh dongle) ion the mouse causing slight lag.

What I want to know is if I remove the wifi pci card and buy a wireless access point can I connect the AP to my PC via CAT5 and let *** AP connect to the router wirelessly giving me the same type of connection to the net and LAN I have now but of course removing the pci wifi card ....would this, work ? I assume this method of connection would be better on my CPU too as well as resources for the PC not having to use the wifi card and use the NIC instead?

Cheers!

 

[rick827]

But all you'd be doing is moving your wireless device away from the PC with a CAT5 cable? If you think that'd help interference, buy a usb extension cable and move the dongle for 1/10th the price? Or try a different channel for the wireless?

 

[mrk]

But all you'd be doing is moving your wireless device away from the PC with a CAT5 cable? If you think that'd help interference, buy a usb extension cable and move the dongle for 1/10th the price? Or try a different channel for the wireless?

Ah you might have misunderstood - the WiFi PCI card appears to be interfering with the USB receiver connected to the PC for the mouse - it appears to be when the card is operating at high load (at the 20MB my net connection allows) the mouse will occasionally lag - either because the pci card and USB are sharing a memory resource or because the PCI card is pulling away resources from the USB wireless dongle on the mouse (which I admit is very tiny to start with)

I have an extension already on the USB dongle away from the wifi card so it appears to be purely USB controller related in relation to these two devices only.

What I will do though is go home tonight and use the MX1000 on the USB port to see if that has the same problem - if it does not then I guess I can be sure it's an issue with the MX Revolution receiver being too fragile to high load/interference/resource hijacking from other devices that demand more resources under load.