Linksys has never failed me yet (using one for 2 years now, and before that, another Linksys that is still going strong after 4 years). Belkin and Netgear have always failed on me after a year or so. I have the Linksys WRT54GL. Use WEP encryption. ~Liz
Lizzeh.com Support Open Source! On 28 Feb 2009, at 09:03, Rob Beard wrote: > On 27/02/2009 22:13, London School of Puppetry wrote: >> >> Hi there, When I am working at a colleague's house, I use my laptop >> and her wireless connection- it was BT and the connection was >> unreliable for her desk-top and I could not get a connection at >> all. I >> now have a new lap-top and coincidentally she has switched to Tiscali >> and they sent her a new router or is it a modem? You would think all >> would be well? All was well for a few months and now once again her >> connection is on and off although it says there is excellent >> strength, >> and I never get a connection- Any ideas? >> > One thing I have found is if you use a WPA key with less than 8 > characters it will appear to connect and not work. At first I just > thought it was my Dad's router that did this but I've also seen it > on a > Belkin router too. > > Are you able to connect if you plug a cable into the router? > > Rob > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
