Wireless Routers...

[FrenchTVR]

We have a Netgear WGT624 wireless router that has a habit of constantly dropping it's signal.
This happens even when the laptop is in the same room about two feet away. It will then try and pick up the signal and then drop it over & over.

It doesn't do it all the time, just goes through phases of a couple of hours every couple of days.

I have all the latest firmware & drivers loaded. Anybody had similar problems and what were the solutions?

When it's working properly it's great, when it's not it's driving me even further around the bend

Cheers.

[z1000]

You recommended it to me yesterday and I went out and bought one !

[FrenchTVR]

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great bit of kit. Just seem to have an issue over the last week or so with it dropping the signal for periods of time.
I'm using it at about 45metres range with a USB adaptor for my PC and a pcmcia card for the laptop.

Generally it's been brilliant which is why I don't understand why it's starting dropping the signal.

We had some "new" software installed on the laptop last week, most notably a copy of Quickbooks, ever since then we seem to have had problems with the connection to the router.

Blimey, I may have just answered my own question there!

I also need to speak to our neighbour as they have just installed a wireless network as well. Just to see what kit they are using etc.

[.Flyer]

FrenchTVR said:

I also need to speak to our neighbour as they have just installed a wireless network as well. Just to see what kit they are using etc.

That could be your answer right there. Are you on the same channels? 13 perhaps?. Try moving the channel you're on to, say, 7.

[FrenchTVR]

.Flyer said:

That could be your answer right there. Are you on the same channels? 13 perhaps?. Try moving the channel you're on to, say, 7.

No he is on Ch 1 & we are on Ch 6.

After messing about non-stop between about 1pm & 3 it's been fine again, not blipped once since.....aaargh

[.Flyer]

FrenchTVR said:

No he is on Ch 1 & we are on Ch 6. After messing about non-stop between about 1pm & 3 it's been fine again, not blipped once since.....aaargh

Could be interference on 2.4Ghz; portable telephones usually. The stock tech support answers are to swap channels, as far away as possible from your neighbour, and upgrade to the latest firmware.

Hopefully, you've fixed the problem now

[FrenchTVR]

.Flyer said:

Could be interference on 2.4Ghz; portable telephones usually.

Thats an interesting possibility as his office is between my router and my PC. Also fairly close to the router and laptop.
We also have cordless phones. Will look into this a bit more.

[squirrelz]

.Flyer said:

Could be interference on 2.4Ghz; portable telephones usually.

Not in this country - DECT phones are on a completely different frequency. Some US cordless phones are on 2.4GHz, but not European ones.

Video senders are on 2.4GHz, as are Bluetooth devices, but it tends to be those devices affected by WiFi, rather than the other way round.