Thread: Computer help please

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Ah well, wireless routers.

First thing to do is get it away from the microwave and away from the base station for the 2.4Ghz cordless phone.

Hmm, I wonder.....

My daughter moved back home while she finished the last year of uni (thank God, she's off to Derby next Feb! ) so my office reverted to her bedroom and my computers moved out. The problem is that her bedroom where the broadband cable connection is to the cable modem. So I had to replace the existng wired router with a wireless unit or cable the house. The wireless router option was cheaper and easier. I have a D-Link DI-524 AirPlus G High Speed 2.4GHz (802.11g) Wireless Router

It's OK for her, she can used the wired router socket (only because I can't work out to get her Mac iBook to talk wirelessly to the router with WEP enabled).

But for the other computers which do use the wireless, quite often the PCs simply stop receiving data from the router. The wireless connection looks OK. I regularly have to "Repair" the connection and get a new IP address. Sometimes I have to give up, shut it all down, and come back later.

The desktop is fitted with a D-Link DWL-G510 AirPlus G High Speed 2.4GHz (802.11g) Wireless PCI Adapter and this gives far more trouble than the in-built wireless in my Compaq laptop.

My daughter has a cordless phone about 600 mm from the router.

i wonder........

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

Hmm, I wonder.....

My daughter moved back home while she finished the last year of uni (thank God, she's off to Derby next Feb! ) so my office reverted to her bedroom and my computers moved out. The problem is that her bedroom where the broadband cable connection is to the cable modem. So I had to replace the existng wired router with a wireless unit or cable the house. The wireless router option was cheaper and easier. I have a D-Link DI-524 AirPlus G High Speed 2.4GHz (802.11g) Wireless Router

It's OK for her, she can used the wired router socket (only because I can't work out to get her Mac iBook to talk wirelessly to the router with WEP enabled).

But for the other computers which do use the wireless, quite often the PCs simply stop receiving data from the router. The wireless connection looks OK. I regularly have to "Repair" the connection and get a new IP address. Sometimes I have to give up, shut it all down, and come back later.

The desktop is fitted with a D-Link DWL-G510 AirPlus G High Speed 2.4GHz (802.11g) Wireless PCI Adapter and this gives far more trouble than the in-built wireless in my Compaq laptop.

My daughter has a cordless phone about 600 mm from the router.

i wonder........

Ron

I think the phone would only be an issue if the frequency was close to that of the router.
If you look in the set-up of the router, you will have several channels you can select for transmission. Try a different channel.

OR

Presuming you are using Windows, open a command prompt, type in 'ping -t' without quotes, then the ip address of your router, (the address you use to configure your router, 10.1.1.1, 192.0.0.1 or whatever it is.)
Then press enter.

so it would be something like ping -t 192.0.0.1
(spaces between g and t)

You should get something like this:

Pinging 192.1.1.11 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.1.1.11: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

You should not get any drop outs, (lost packets) from one room to another.
If you are it could be interference. Try turning the wireless phone off, then on and use it while watching the ping results if they are unchanged the phone isn't the issue.

If I get a system with connection problems, a quick fix is to create a batch file, (a .txt, notepad file but save it as reconnect.bat .bat extension not .txt)
In the text file before you save it copy and paste the following:

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew


this will renew your connection to the router.
This is a bit like taking aspril, it doesn't fix the fault but it makes it easier to live with