On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:16:44PM +1100, David wrote: > I'm running a netgear wg511t pcmcia card on Ubuntu Warty and a netgear > wireless router (recently purchased, can't recall model number). > > It's worked perfectly for about 4/5 weeks, until suddenly it became > intermittent, then died completely. At first I thought it was a config > problem, given I know very little about wireless, but I hadn't changed > anything so that didn't seem likely. ifconfig output looks perfectly > normal with ath0 configured at the correct ip etc. > > I powercycled the router (twice), but that made no difference. I'd just > about given up when I took my laptop home and discovered it was picking up > a signal from somebodies elses router! From this I assume that the problem > is my router. > > How can i tell? What simple tests can i perform to convince the nice man > at the shop that it's not Linux causing the problem but his ugly router?
Before you tell the man his router is stuffed, try changing the channel on
your AP. It could be that the bloke next door has an AP on the same channel
and it's swamping yours (although you'll be pleased to know that you're
probably stuffing him up as well).
Once that's done and no improvement has been found, take the AP back and
tell them that it's stuffed. If they're *really* picky about it, take your
lapdog and accouterements to the store and show that the lapdog works fine
on another AP, then get your money back and cross that store off your
christmas card list.
- Matt
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