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| Apologies to those in the chatroom last night for my disappearing/reappearing act. Here is the situation today: My Linksys WAG54G router irregularly drops all connections, be they wired or unwired. A quck removal and re-insertion of the power lead fixes matters for a few hours. The software for the Linksys PCMCIA wireless adaptor in my laptop never loads at startup as it should. In the past, this has not been an issue, as the network and internet have operated fine without it, but I am now not getting a wireless connection unless this software is started. NetStumbler continues to state there is no wireless adapter present when the laptop is connected via that adapter to my network and the internet. The generic ethernet adapter in my main PC will function only at 10Mbps full-duplex. Previously it functioned at 100Mbps in either full or half-duplex mode. The router will only occasionally allow access to its administrative funtions via its IP address from any PC on the network (there are 4, 2 wired, 2 wireless) All wiring appears intact. Anybody got any clues as to what the hell has gone wrong with my network all of a sudden?
/\/\athusalah
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The Pigs of Uranus
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Looks like the routers duff.
Try resetting it to factory settings and set it up again.
Maybe worth a look to see if there's newer firmware for it.
My old 802.11b Linksys is driving me mad.
Not as bad as yours, but it's gotta go.
In the business I have just about settled on Buffalo kit.
Well made an very easy to set up if you have Buffalo clients.
No more difficult than anything else if you don't.
Too early to comment on longevity, but I'm pleased with the stuff so far and I've tried just about every make on the market.
Dave R
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486
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| Now here's a thing: Changed the channel on the router and wireless clients and it's been rock solid stable for 3 days now (including MM chatroom!) I can understand why a nearby wireless network might interfere with the wireless part of mine, (signal to noise ratio etc) but could that affect the wired components? Why would the net connecton drop? Or maybe it's just a coincidence and my router has got over its tantrum?
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are you very close to a mobile phone antenna? could that be inducing noise noise into the circuitry somehow and changing channel is reducing the interference?
Cheers, Keith.
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486
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| Looks like I had too much faith - dratted thing fell over twice again today. I really hate these intermittent faults, you can spend no end of time and money replacing this and that and never find out exactly what is causing the aggro. Keith - no mobile phone masts too close (so far as I know, they're hiding them now, apparantly) but I still can't see how any radio signal could cause the loss of my Internet connection or affect the wired clients on the network.
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