The Xircom isn't as powerful as a laptop WiFi card, so you should try an area you already know has good signal. Other than that make sure you have power saving turned off (Advanced button on Client Settings Menu). Make sure you give your client a name, some DHCP servers seem to care. I'm assuming since it works at home that you're netwok settings are good. For mine this mean creating a service and assigning a user name and password (both to random values), and setting Connection to "Direct USB/Serial" It's also useful to click on "Status" on the Xircom menu when first connecting to a node, this will tell you if you are associated and your signal strength even if you can't get an IP. If you press the refresh button on that screen it will update the signal bar as you walk around for a sweet spot. It seems to only update ever 5 seconds or so so walk slowly.
Hope this helps. -- Daniel <<You cant eat before a operashun. Not even cheese.>> -- Charlie Gordon On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jerold Paulson wrote: ]I tried to access a node in Queens today and could not connect. Does anyone else out ]there have any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong? (I set the ESSID to ]www.nycwireless.net and encryption to 'off'.) I'm connecting to my home WLAN without ]similar problems. ] ]Thanks in advance, ]Jerry Paulson ] ]-- ]NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ ]Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ ]Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ ] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
