I’ve set up a wireless network. My desktop, running ME, is directed directly to my DI-614+ d-link wireless router and my cable modem’s box. My laptop, running XP, is using a wireless card to connect to the router. The signal works, because I can connect to the router, but it half the time, the connection to the WAN won’t work. When it does work, it will flicker on and off. How do I get it so my connection will work all the time with my laptop?
I did install XP networking on my desktop.
I use charter digital cable (I know it sucks, but i couldn’t afford dsl and its only cable provider in my area)
I have set the router up with static and dynamic ip addresses. Neither works well, my connection still dies often.
I have all 4 things in my network settings (like the qos packet sender, client for microsoft networking) enabled.
I have all the network settings on default value.
Thanks
NWC
I decided to post this here on a flash site since I know some of you are good with networks and since the other forums I posted on, have like 1 hit per 15 hours, so I was hoping i’d get more responses here :).
sounds more like a line-of-site and/or interference issue
(If you’re getting connection on and off)
…wireless isn’t all that reliable when there are obsticles or heavy microwave transmissions in the area or other electrical interference…highVoltage power lines etc.
Well, I can put the wireless card on one of the antennas of the router and it still won’t work. I don’t live near any big power lines or anything like that, and I don’t really know how many microwave transmissions live near me.
Plus, right now, I can connect to the network, but even while being connected, I can’t access the web or anything. So its got to be something with my Charter/router connection or something like that.
I don’t mean to souns stupid here, but just today my modem was replaced by the cable guy, cause I was having problems with it. It would go on and off, sorta like yours. Sometimes I would kick it and I could manage a solid 3 hours of connectivity, which was a welcome treat compared to flickering or no internet at all.
Anyways, I don’t have a WAN, I have a LAN, (sort of, still haven’t figured it out beyond splitting the net through my hub), and just wanted to say my bit.
well it is surely a crap connection somewhere - it just doesn’t sound like anything with your settings… intermitent signal is hardware/connection related
If you (as seems you have) ruled out the interference possibility…
as you’re thinking and Aislin suggests - bad modem - or maybe a bad router ???
My Hub is actually working great, llasted longer than my modem, and it was just the cheapest Netgear I could find at the radio shack, great quiality and price.
I find that modems//cables cause the most trouble. Not CAt5, but the cable directly to the modem. My original problem was that it wasn’t plugged in correctly, apparently my dad could have taken down a node, leaving… oh, the south end of the city without cable internet. lmao.
Edit:
Hubs are too simple to get broken, anyways, LoL. there’s a couple wires and a button, 5 LEDs or so. Heheh.
