SafeChav

Has anyone got one? I bought a wireless router package over a year ago and the wireless on it has been fucking shocking.

Anyone got any useful tips, as their customer support are about as much use a chocolate teapot, telling me to install updated drivers which are actually the same etc

User 32922

yes bin it. get a netgear

i used to supply these and used to rate them, EVERY unit i installed died after 2 years!!! support is shocking.

It's Czech Mate

I use linksys and use them at work - find support fine even on my seconfd hand ebay item i use at home

far easier to configure than netgear as well

netgear are nowt but trouble IMO

SafeChav

Its only the wireless though, it would only conenct when it wanted to, and always used to drop out and had poor range.

I ununstalled the driver for the PCMCIA card and re-installed to find it was the same driver! It now seems to connect everytime, but the wireless drops out every 8-9 minutes

User 32922

Well the Linksys WAG54G is the biggest pile of poo i have ever sold. CISCO should be ashamed to put there name to such a poor product.

and netgear hard to configure? my mum could do it


i don't know about any recent linksys products but after the WAG54G experience i think i'll stick with netgear

It's Czech Mate

well my missis has netgear at home which she is forced to use with her aol bb ( which she gets as an aol emplyeee ) and do you think it'll fucking work? Even netgear support have given up

She bought her laptop to my house, two mins on xp wireless wizzard and she was happy as larry

SafeChav

Ummmmmmm

Did you just say AOL

It's Czech Mate

roflol

u have to use netgear

and it'll be a total asshole to get to work

User 32922

AOhelL



well never had a netgear not work....u must be unlucky

Christian and Beccy

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We are now having problems with our Belkin unit. We have one for APT and both Gary and I run them at home and they are all playing up at the moment. (Mine and the APT one particularly). Makes you wonder about inbuilt written bugs. They never missed a beat for a year and are now playing up.

SafeChav

Fuck me this is getting on my tits now

Another 9 minutes, another connection dropped

Anyone got any advice to offer? The technical support had me change some settings in the router, Beacon Interval, RTS Threshold, and Fragmentation Threshold

Dannn

Buy bigger ariel with more gain (like 9db)...

http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-indoorantenna-24.htm

This is what I had to do to one of my wireless routers....

And update to the lastest firmware...

SafeChav

Mate......

The laptop is less than a meter away from the router

User 32922

are you running norton?

try turning off the firewall/worm thingy for say 30mins

SafeChav

And again (another 9 minutes)

Nope, AVG free, thats it! The only firewall is the one built into the router!

Dannn

Change the wireless channel within the router - you have someting interfering with it....!

SafeChav

Good call! Will try now

Dannn

instruction here:

http://www1.linksys.com/support/trou...el_change.html

vroooom ptssssh

Ive got a netgear rangemax 240 wireless router and ive never had a single problem with it ! my neighbours along and across the road can even pick it up...i'll have a fried brain by 2008

Dannn

...or it could be the laptop and/or laptop wireless adapter...

SafeChav

Already done it! See how long it lasts this time

Was interesting to read about the channels which dont overlap, it was on 11, now on 6.

We shall see Dont hold my hopes high

Eagle

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wrt54gs v5 is the biggest pile of poo on the standard firmware ... now if you add a different firmware to it that is a different matter...
keep looking for a cheap one to try it on as i rally don't fancy bricking mine

mine is running the atest firmware and is not too bad at the moment saying that ... dont suppose you have a bluetooth unit on the pc do you??

boXXer

i had a WAG54g, and it was total toss! i lost wireless connection every 15 mins or so, an kept dropping the ADSL.

SafeChav

Eagle, my mate has the wrt54g, my laptop works fine with his router, was on for 2 hours solidly. Think he had to upgrade his firmware when he got his. You should be fine

Mine is the more primitive wrk54g, single antenna jobby. And there is no newer firmware for mine.

And no, no bluetooth

SafeChav

Channel change hasn't cured it, 9 minutes later..........connection dropped

Anymore suggestions?

Eagle

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erm.... bin it

SafeChav

Thats not a bad suggestion i have to admit

Just dropped out again

Eagle

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have you done a search on google about it some very nice words describing it

SafeChav

I did that a long time ago

I did get the impression Linksys Wireless Products were of a high standard

Dannn

Never had any problems with Linksys routers myself....!

So did you upgrade the firmware ?

Have you tried that laptop with anther wireless router ?

Dannn

delete

SafeChav

I havent upgraded, the firmware on the router is a high version than the firmware available for d/l on the linksys site!

Just a thought......mobile phones.............but its a proper old shitty 8310 so no bluetooth or anything, would that interfere?

SafeChav

And ive had my laptop working very well on other peoples wireless, so im convinced its the router.

Eagle

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only bluetooth interfeers with wireless ... oh and sometimes cordless telephones

SafeChav

Interesting, no landline in this house! And no bluetooth, strange thing is, my phone was right by the PCMCIA card, moved it and its been on for about 20 mins non stop now

DaveZS

Uninstall and reinstall the drivers for both the laptop and pc. I had this on mine where the connection kept dropping. Works fine now.

Eagle

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ermmmmmm

SafeChav

There is no drivers for the router....?

So how did you manage that

Eagle

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is it still working then?

SafeChav

Pfffffffft, yes it is

Duno whats going on. I bet it resumes back to how it was, it did have the odd good day