stud with sheetrock construction all interfere with WiFi signals.
The rooms which are almost directly below the upstairs den
get a really good signal (router is upstairs).
Rooms where signal must go through kitchen or too many walls
don't get much. Am playing with a 2nd WAP to see if that helps.
-Ben
>I have the same a 4-port wireless linksys router w/ cablemodem and I
>have a lot of Wireless connection unavailable type errors; I'm not 20
>feet away from the modem with my laptop either. Its kinda lame. But
>hey it still works 80% of the time.
>
>SIGH.
>
>Maybe its cuz the router is 2.4Ghz and so are the cordless phones in the
>apartment.
>
>Beetz me.
>
>brendan avery 2.0 developers edition
>http://www.brendanavery.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jeremiah bascue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:12 PM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: re: speaking of linksys...
>
>I had a really similar problem when I had the same linksys as you do.
>The solution was to move it away from the cable modem -- at least 6
>feet. My new router is a lot more forgiving than the Linksys was in
>this regard, but it's no where near as tidy and that's a big problem for
>a cable-tidy-neat-freak like me. ;)
>
>Anyway, it might be worth giving this a shot.
>--jeremiah
>
>
>
>bret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So I have a Linksys 4-port Cable/DSL router. It's worked great until
>> about 2 weeks ago, when it totally freaked out and wouldn't release
>its
>> DHCP lease with Comcast. I spent pretty much all day getting it back
>> online.
>>
>> It worked great for awhile and now it seems to be locking up several
>> times a day, to the point where I have to do the magic
>> router-reanimation-dance and power it down, power down the cable
>modem,
>does
>> anyone have any non-linksys suggestions? Needs to be pretty
>low-profile
>> so it will fit in our silly media hub that lives in the wall of our
>> closet. Minimum 4-ports, plus all those nifty firewall features and
>stuff.
>>
>> -Bret
>>
>>
>>
[Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
