Comments | dewbakuk: Wireless network hell

dewbakuk

Wireless network hell

Jan 02, 2007 19:50

Anyone know how to sort this out? I've set up a wireless network and it doesn't. The signal strength is fine, the transfer is fine, but it drops after five seconds. After playing with it for a rather long time I think my PC isn't recieving an IP address from the router. The wierd thing is it works fine if I plug an ethernet cable into the router ( Read more... )

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dewbakuk January 2 2007, 22:25:46 UTC

Do I need to get a specific IP from my web provider? I've tried just typing a random one in and it didn't make any difference.

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oberon1972 January 2 2007, 23:05:41 UTC

who's the isp?

does the parafenalia that came with the router specify adding another machine? have you tried killng all the machines and reinstalling from scratch?

are you definite that you have a static IP address?

dewbakuk January 2 2007, 23:10:49 UTC

The wireless card is the one made to go with the router. Yep, killed and re-done. I don't have a static IP, it's DHCP.

oberon1972 January 2 2007, 23:41:46 UTC

wheres the router from? bt, wanadoo, orange, etc. and does the wireless card plug into a lappie or a desktop?

dewbakuk January 3 2007, 00:07:35 UTC

Desktop.

Netgear router, connecting through NTL. It's one of the new N series.

dewbakuk January 4 2007, 13:12:25 UTC

All is fixed and well. I am now wireless!

Turning off all the security allowed it to run. I then specified and restricted the IP's and MACs used by the cards accessing the router so as to give me at least a little security. I then turned the security back on to check something and it worked. Everything was fine. Not totally sure why, but I'm not going to complain :D

dewbakuk January 4 2007, 13:15:55 UTC

Oh, and I'm happy to recommend these new N routers. I'm getting 95-100% connection speed at all times and it's achieving 270mbps constantly, everywhere in the house.