On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 15:37 +1300, Barry wrote: > Hi All, > > Over the last few months I have had a lot of trouble getting a > connection in the evenings. Often my mail connection times out, and > browser times out waiting for google or stuff.co.nz. or to access a > link. If I want to send an email I have to save it for sending the next day > > Also at night I can not log into my router, presumably because the > router is having trouble making a connection to telstra > > These problems seem to have been since Vodafone took over Telstra. > > During the day I do not have any problems > > Any ideas on how to fix the problem welcome, change provider?? > > TIA > > Barry
As others have mentioned, if you can't get on to a local router then either you're spewing gazillions of gigs of malware ( which will come with a bill! ), or your local wireless is failing. This does happen. part 1. check out your current link status. - /sbin/iwconfig That will tell you the 'Bit Rate', 'Link Quality' and 'Signal Level', and the last 2 lines show various error counter. Values for my lappie are 65Mb/s, 69/70 and -41dBm respectively, and there are no Rx errors, and the odd few hundred thousand Tx errors. The link is fine. If yours are significantly lower, then maybe you have concrete walls between you and the router ( yeah, right! ), or your wireless is failing. It the router uses a connection, I do have a (RP-SMA I think - D-Links standard ) bigger aerial lying around that might help. If it's an aged lappie, I've got spare Mini PCI cards lying around too. Part 2. Try a different channel. Although there are 13 ( 14? depends on geographic region ) channels available, they all overlap to some extent except for the first, last and centre one. Obviously channel 7 is what most antenna are tuned best for, but it may be worth trying 1 and 13 to see if this improves things. Part 3. Can you get permission to temporarily use a hardwired connection to check it with? It does sound like you've got a dodgy router in some way shape or form, so I'd start leaning on TC for results. Although I've only got ADSL ( VDSL next door... bugger! ), we do have exemplary performance from it really ( I'm Voda ex iHug ). Must be something to do with the number of MP's and councillors living nearby. Can't explain the difference day to night. Maybe it's plain interference... I have been in areas of high RF interference before, caused by cheap Chinese motherboards, but that was decades ago. Tinfoil on the walls... good protection these days anyway (: hth, Steve PS. I still owe you a lunch! -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MIITP http://www.greengecko.co.nz Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveholdoway Skype: sholdowa _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
