I'm back home now and so back in the loop. Funnily enough, I managed to get
Internet access several times since I got the original message out, but I
never got a response to it. I now know that you guys did write some answers.
On Monday 27 Sep 2010, Peter Merchant wrote:
> I wonder if it could be like my situation here at home. I have a 3Com
> wireless router, and when I switch off the wired LAN computer, the
> wireless drops it's connection. If the XP wired box is not switched on
> in the morning, I find it very difficult to get the linux wireless box
> to connect to anything outside of the router. i.e. the wireless works,
> and I can get to the router, but can't get out.
Hmmm. Possibly. The landlord told me he switched off the router every night
before he went to bed and switched it on again in the morning. He said that
he didn't have any problems himself and he used wireless to access the
network. I never asked him what kind of OS he had, although I'm sure it was
some flavour of Windows. It seemed to me that it could only handle one
computer at a time, so if I tried when he wasn't, I got on and vice-versa.
In the end, I gave up and used the local resources to find out the weather,
places to go, etc. In fact the weather was lousy, so I didn't get much
walking done, (well not on the hills anyway, I did walk about 20 miles around
Whitby / Scarborough / Pickering and anywhere else with castles, abbeys or
like attractions :-) ).
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