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Well, I tried changing channels and the same thing occured. I did have Mac filtering on and it worked fine for the first 6 months I had the setup. I have it disabled now.
This morning I checked in on the computer and it was off the network again. But this time all I had to do was restart the software program and it connected back up.
Have you turned mac filtering back on? It hogs no bandwidth, it is a simple method of keeping the great unwashed out without encryption.
OMG, you have the honour of being my 20,000th post...
A quick screen shot and then on to 30,000 :devil:
Sorry to be late to the party, but the issue of RF interference in your wireless LAN needs to be investigated. Network Stumbler, a freeware program available at http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/ is a great tool. It works with most (but not all) wireless NICS and will examine the environment for wireless LANS and lets you test signal strength and signal to noise ratios for a specific access point in real time.
I usually install it on all my client's computers which have a wireless LAN connection and take readings and compare them to readings taken on my laptop. This helps pinpoint problems with specific wireless NICS. The program will also give you a graphic representation of connection quality and connect/disconnect time. If you have frequent signal dropouts and long periods of disconnects, this is most likely due to external interference. Some of the newer wireless LAN technologies which are designed to improve speed by using bonded channels can really wreak havoc with other WLANs. When in doubt take the router or access point off-site (and out of the immediate area) and test again.
While WLANs using pre-802.11n technology (MIMO) may help your connection quality, I wouldn't recommend it because there is no standard at present. You might find that your large investment in new equipment is worthless in 6 months.
I think you would do better to look at directional antennas such as Buffalo Technologies WLEDA2 if you find RF noise is the culprit.
No, I have not turned Mac Filtering back on. Last time I did, it started up causing the 2 day issue again.
As for noise, that is possible but the wireless program that came with the card is not detecting any other networks around. I know that it probably is a cheapo and not reliable. I will check out the software you suggested. The thing is My router is in my room, and the computer is just in the next room over. So only 1 wall between us. Signal strength is always 85% to 95%.
When I get a chance I will check out that program.
WEll this is a different box... put mac filtering back on to stop people nicking your bandwidth.
Netstumbler does not support the WG311 from Netgear. :(
Well, I am thinking that it might of been the computer itself. All of a sudden yesterday and today it started getting tons of memory errors. I am gonna try to talk my mom into buying a gig of ram for my old Asus A7N8X board and put that in there with my old XP 2400. Will reinstall win2k when I do it.
how about just testing the RAM with http://www.memtest.org/
I did that last time when the PSU died about a year ago. I had 1 gig in it originally and all of it tested bad but the stuff in it now (256 left). Now it is saying errors with C: drive. Maybe the PSU is killing the components.
*shrug*
I got the spare parts other than the ram so just gonna upgrade her to my old system. Will be cheap, $100-$200 (depending on if my HD and PSU are bad too).
Well, I had to upgrade the computer. Put in my old Asus A7N8X rev 2.0 board and a Athlon XP 2400 in it. 1 gig of DDR400 ram. I then reformatted and reinstalled Win2k (tried not to but 2k didn't like the upgrade, gave me a BSD about Inaccessable Boot Device).
I was able to re-enable WEP and all the security features. Seems to be working fine. Today is day 2. We shall see.
Hopefully the problem has been fixed.
No problems as of yet. Must have been something in the Win2k install that it didn't like.
*shrug*
At least it's fixed now :)