[Tfug] Wireless

[Bexley Hall]

Hi, Terence,

--- Terence Rudkin <trudkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2008 10:33 AM, Bexley Hall
> <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having some "issues" with my wireless
> > connection   :<
> >
> > At times, performance seems "adequate";
> > at others, it's like a cable is unplugged!
> > (figuratively)
> 
> Sounds exactly like the symptoms my wife has.   She
> is wireless and I
> am directly connected. At times she comes in and
> says I  can't get to
> the network.   I fire up my notebook and connect
> straight away.  But
> hers is still not seeing our network.  It does see 
> some weak networks
> in the neighborhood .
> 
> Rebooting does not help, moving the notebook near
> the AP will get the
> connection reestablished.
> 
> I am beginning to think. OK grasping at straws, that
> the problem is
> related ti the auto down-shift of speed.  Different
> vendors have
> slight differences in implementation of the speed
> shit protocol and

  ^^^^ not to be confused with the speed *pee*
protocol!  ;-)

> does not play will with out of connections.
> 
> I am searching out a new access point so that it is
> the same brand as
> in the notebook to see if the problems goes away.

Have you noted what *you* (and she) were doing
in the house at the time?  Or, like me, are you
at the mercy of exogenous events?  :<

--don


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