Networking Problem

[V8 Animal]

Bought a usb belkin g adaptor to connect a pc at work which is in the warehouse to connect to the office router.
It worked straight away allthough dropped out a few times windows downloaded there updates and now can't connect at all.
Infact have been unable to connect at all today.
Warehouse is metal clad and various machines are working all the time also the pc is a fair distance from the router.
Should i be looking at a different adaptor or is wireless a no no in a busy workshop.
Don't really want to wire it up for the distance reasons.
25M approx.
Or is it my pc?
Thanks for any advice.
Paul

[bigdods]

Download netstumbler (google is your friend) it can do a basic site survey so you can wander around with your lappie and check signal strength. If its a fixed PC it will still work and show you whats going on.

Could easily be RF interference from machines causing it, is it possible to try it say early morning when machines are off or is it a 24 hour site ? ALso , try opening any doors between the worksop and location of the wireless access point/router if it suddenly starts working then its a weak signal.

ANd finally, try restoring WIndows back to before the updates say a week ago, see if the problem goes away. If it does, disable auto updates. Job done

[Olf]

I've had bad experiences with Belkin stuff recently. If experimentation fails replace the card with a netgear.

[buggalugs]

I wouldn't go with wireless in that situation at all, not if you want it to work reliably. All those machines spitting interference out, people no doubt moving stock / equipment / vans inbetween you and the receiver, its a recepie for trouble. I don't do that much cabling myself but I've done a couple of runs in buildings that sound similar to the one you describe (for CNC's etc) and its usually pretty easy to run around the steel frame of the building to where it needs to be and pop a couple of ends on, or put a socket up - it'll be much, much less hassle in the long term.

Just my 2p

[GreenLandy]

Is it a steel frame clad in aluminuim? If so aluminuim is great at blocking wireless.

[V8 Animal]

buggalugs said:

I wouldn't go with wireless in that situation at all, not if you want it to work reliably. All those machines spitting interference out, people no doubt moving stock / equipment / vans inbetween you and the receiver, its a recepie for trouble. I don't do that much cabling myself but I've done a couple of runs in buildings that sound similar to the one you describe (for CNC's etc) and its usually pretty easy to run around the steel frame of the building to where it needs to be and pop a couple of ends on, or put a socket up - it'll be much, much less hassle in the long term.

Just my 2p

How close were you!!
This pc operates a CNC and all i want to do is transfer DXF files from the office email to the CNC
Saving floppys.
It is a half brick and half steelclad building the modern type warehouse.
However had some luck today altered a few parameters in the usb stick file and now it works it could have been a bad day yesterday.The office use the net for the radio and they tell me the radio was intermintent yesterday.
But now have 5 pcs networked one wirelessly.
Cheers