Thanks everyone for the info (and yes I wish I had bought an Apple, but the cost is a LOT higher). I did some searching on the Internet for others who have had this problem and there was a suggestion to change the channel from 6 to 1 or 11. I have changed it to 11 and the Dell seems to be working now, however, I am going to use my G3 ibook to test it all over the house to see if that did solve the problem. I want to test it under various circumstances including working on all computers at the same time. Will let you know what happens.
Nora From: John Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:55:27 -0400 To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> Subject: Re: MacGroup: Wireless Connection-Lo Connectivity Nora, I am a purist, I will only use Apple products, so I have to at least give you my experience. I have three locations, (four is I count the one I installed for my daughter) all with Airport Extreme. On my home I am in an upstairs room, and can get connection all over the house, even across the street at my daughter's home. At my office I am around tons of metal and wire. The building is an old claims office of Farm Bureau and the room I am in was the old computer room and the walls and ceiling are full of their old wires and conduit. I can walk all over the building and have great signal as well as outside in the parking lot and the unit is just 30 inches off the floor, as is the one in my home. In the home I am building I have the Airport in the corner of the basement, next to huge amounts of wiring, two large electrical boxes and the box with all the coax, cat 5, and phone system wires. I have this shut up in a small area of the house, so there is little I have done to make this easy for the system. I can get signal in all the lower level, then on the main level I do find some dead spots. On the upper level I still can get signal in spotty locations, but with the new Airport Express I will solve that problem as soon as I am moved in. I put one in my daughter's house as well, and she has no problems anywhere in her home and I can log onto her system from my house and I am well over 100 feet away and she doesn't have an external antenna. For me, the cost consideration is much more than just the initial expenditure for using my time to constantly try to get the computer systems to work outweighs any difference between a product that is not Apple's vs another vendor. John R. On Jul 2, 2004, at 1:22 PM, Nora J. Probasco wrote: > Hi Group, > > Well, I hooked up the Linksys WRT54G ?to my G4 desktop, G3 ibook and finally > got the Dell to connect. It has been a long, frustrating trial to get the > software loaded and installed for the WMP54G on the Dell computer. Now we have > another problem. The Dell shows low connectivity and keeps getting bumped off > the system. To test to see if it was the Dell or the signal, I took my G3 > ibook to the same area where the Dell is and also had the problem. I thought > it was supposed to broadcast 50 ft. I live in a patio home which is smaller > than a large home. My office is at 1 end of the home and where we are trying > to connect is at the other end. Has anyone else had this problem? > > Do I need to get a booster antenna? Or just take it back and invest in the > Airport Extreme base which the Apple rep said broadcast further with a > stronger signal than Linksys? Help! > > Nora -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20040702/b92f636e/attachment.html
