theMusicMan
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Hi All
I am experiencing regular (every 15 mins) drop outs from my Linksys wireless broadband router (WRT54G) which has become very, very frustrating. I cannot establish why this is occurring at all. It does sometimes seem to happen when other PC's in my house 'join' the network (we have 5 PC's wifi and 1 Ethernet), but this also happens regularly at other times too when nothing else is happening. My wife and I will be on our laptops and find ourselves both asking each other... "do you have a connection" at the same time
Sometimes it comes back, but most often I have to reset the router by switching it off and then on again.
I am considering purchasing an alternative router and am wondering which one experts here could perhaps recommend I purchase as a replacement.
I am happy to go for a wireless 'g' router, and I'd also like it to be able to take ethernet cabling (the WRT54G has WiFi as well as 4 wired ports).
So can anyone suggest what model I should go for?
Also - I would love to know if anyone has ideas as to why my wifi network keeps dropping out? (apologies if I ought to have put that in another thread) This has only started happening over the last 2 to 3 months, the router is approx 1 year old though I don't have the receipt. I really want a stable internet connection for my home network as it does get used a lot. I have also noticed a slowing down of our apparent 10MB Broadband internet connection (NTL now Virgin Media). My wife tried to watch a TV show online last night - and gave up as the stream was so slow.
When I run iStumbler, I get a constant 9% figure in the noise column, regardless which wifi network I see in there. Is this right? The signal strength in my Linksys router when reading it from iStumbler from my Mac only 6 feet away is 75%. Is that right too?
Any advice or ideas? thanks.
I am experiencing regular (every 15 mins) drop outs from my Linksys wireless broadband router (WRT54G) which has become very, very frustrating. I cannot establish why this is occurring at all. It does sometimes seem to happen when other PC's in my house 'join' the network (we have 5 PC's wifi and 1 Ethernet), but this also happens regularly at other times too when nothing else is happening. My wife and I will be on our laptops and find ourselves both asking each other... "do you have a connection" at the same time
Sometimes it comes back, but most often I have to reset the router by switching it off and then on again.
I am considering purchasing an alternative router and am wondering which one experts here could perhaps recommend I purchase as a replacement.
I am happy to go for a wireless 'g' router, and I'd also like it to be able to take ethernet cabling (the WRT54G has WiFi as well as 4 wired ports).
So can anyone suggest what model I should go for?
Also - I would love to know if anyone has ideas as to why my wifi network keeps dropping out? (apologies if I ought to have put that in another thread) This has only started happening over the last 2 to 3 months, the router is approx 1 year old though I don't have the receipt. I really want a stable internet connection for my home network as it does get used a lot. I have also noticed a slowing down of our apparent 10MB Broadband internet connection (NTL now Virgin Media). My wife tried to watch a TV show online last night - and gave up as the stream was so slow.
When I run iStumbler, I get a constant 9% figure in the noise column, regardless which wifi network I see in there. Is this right? The signal strength in my Linksys router when reading it from iStumbler from my Mac only 6 feet away is 75%. Is that right too?
Any advice or ideas? thanks.