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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
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
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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
far easier to configure than netgear as well
netgear are nowt but trouble IMO
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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
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
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Originally Posted by MattRS1600i
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
far easier to configure than netgear as well
netgear are nowt but trouble IMO
and netgear hard to configure? my mum could do it
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i don't know about any recent linksys products but after the WAG54G experience i think i'll stick with netgear
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Originally Posted by pgtips
Originally Posted by MattRS1600i
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
far easier to configure than netgear as well
netgear are nowt but trouble IMO
and netgear hard to configure? my mum could do it
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i don't know about any recent linksys products but after the WAG54G experience i think i'll stick with netgear
She bought her laptop to my house, two mins on xp wireless wizzard and she was happy as larry
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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.
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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
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Another 9 minutes, another connection dropped
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Anyone got any advice to offer? The technical support had me change some settings in the router, Beacon Interval, RTS Threshold, and Fragmentation Threshold
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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...
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...
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Originally Posted by 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....
http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-indoorantenna-24.htm
This is what I had to do to one of my wireless routers....
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The laptop is less than a meter away from the router
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Originally Posted by 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....
http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-indoorantenna-24.htm
This is what I had to do to one of my wireless routers....
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The laptop is less than a meter away from the router
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Originally Posted by Dannn
Originally Posted by SafeChav
Originally Posted by 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....
http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-indoorantenna-24.htm
This is what I had to do to one of my wireless routers....
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The laptop is less than a meter away from the router
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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
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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
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Was interesting to read about the channels which dont overlap, it was on 11, now on 6.
We shall see
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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??
keep looking for a cheap one to try it on as i rally don't fancy bricking mine
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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??
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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
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Mine is the more primitive wrk54g, single antenna jobby. And there is no newer firmware for mine.
And no, no bluetooth
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Never had any problems with Linksys routers myself....!
So did you upgrade the firmware ?
Have you tried that laptop with anther wireless router ?
So did you upgrade the firmware ?
Have you tried that laptop with anther wireless router ?
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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?
Just a thought......mobile phones.............but its a proper old shitty 8310 so no bluetooth or anything, would that interfere?
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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
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Uninstall and reinstall the drivers for both the laptop and pc. I had this on mine where the connection kept dropping. Works fine now. ![Big Grin](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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So how did you manage that