Strange wireless problem for you guys..

corkman80

Hi All

I have a problem at the moment which I cannot get to the bottom of so I decided to ask for some help.

Ok first off, wireless connection has been working perfectly until the last 6 weeks or so.

I have 2 laptops and both were connecting perfectly to a Belkin DSL Router with wireless. All of a sudden laptop 1 no longer see's the wireless network at all and laptop 2 sees the network, asks for the WEP key but will not connect and does not give an error.

So after many frustrating hours I got a second known working Netopia Router and replaced the Belkin but the exact same result happened with both laptop 1 and laptop 2.

I have confirmed both laptops connect perfectly to various other networks and that the netopia modem is working and the belkin modem was working perfectly.

The only thing I can think of is that there is something which is conflicting with the network.

Any ideas??

Cheers

seamus

Has anything changed around the house - new devices, etc?

Get your hands on netstumbler and scan for other wireless networks in the area. I've had trouble in the past with relatively congested frequencies - at one point, I found 8 networks all using channel 6.

So try changing your network to channel 1, 7 or 13 - whichever channel has the fewest networks on channels "near" to it - that is, if everyone is on channels between 2 and 8 (for example), try change the channel on the router to 13. It shouldn't require any messing on the laptops, though some routers need to reboot to change channels.

corkman80

Yup that worked Ok....it was set to 4 which was different to all the others but I changed it to 8 anyway and everything connected first time...

Cheers