[Tfug] Wireless

[Terence Rudkin]

On Feb 11, 2008 9:32 AM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?  :<
In most cases we are both at our computer.  There are time when the
connection goes down while the microwave is running but most often it
comes back on it's own.

TR
>
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