On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:16 pm, 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? > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > David.
I had a similar problem when my favourite neighbours (cough!) bought one of those new fangled 2.4GHz-1km-range cordless phones. Whenever they were on the phone it knocked out my access point signal. I managed to switch around the channels and found one (ch6 IIRC) that seems immune from the mafia outfit who live next door. Everything is sweet again :) FWIW these new 108MBps access points use more than one channel to get the speed (ie TX/RX on multiple channels=more bandwidth). If your neighbour has one of these newer AP's etc, you might find that getting a free channel might take more than the first attempt. HTH. James -- Politics is like coaching a football team. you have to be smart enough to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.
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