I have a d-link 614+ and I just recently mounted a 11dBi 90 degree vertical sector panel antenna http://www.superpass.com/SPDG13F.html I am merely trying to get the signal across the street to my neighbor which is no more than 75 feet across, with a window to the living room. The antenna is mounted to my roof pointing to his house, he is on the second floor so it is straight across with maybe 1-5 degrees. I can't seem to get a reliable consistent signal, It peaks at 75-100 but drops to zero intermittently. He has winxp so he has to constantly click on the icon tray to re-enable the network. Am I doing something wrong? The d-link doesn't allow me to turn off the other antenna, which has the stock small duck small antenna, could this be the cause? Please help. I would think 11dBi and that short distance would work. I have dropped the encryption from 26key to 10key to no wep at all and I still get complete signal drops, and cycles up to 100%. I haven't secured the cable to the side of the house so there could be some slight movement, and the antenna is secured against a small pipe coming out from the house. It too may be able to move but only with some force applied. I'm going crazy here, do I need to get a stronger antenna? Or a repeater?
Also is there a way in xp to automatically keep the wireless signal? If the signal drops I have to click the system tray again to select the network I want to connect to, this gets a bit annoying. Thanks, Peter -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
