alt.internet.wireless

This shouldn't be happening.

I suspect your wireless router is temporarily going into never never
land, perhaps due to load (e.g., peer-to-peer filesharing), and then
spontaneously restarts. If the wireless router is still new, I'd try to
get it replaced, ideally with a different brand and model.


On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:30:39 -0500, "Dave Lee"
wrote in
<13qf80hiehbca4a@corp.supernews.com>:

>I recently set up a simple wireless network in our home. It is two
>Dell/Vista laptops (both with Intel 4965AGN Wireless controllers), a Netgear
>WNR834B wireless router (802.11n-draft level), and a cable modem for
>internet access. After a false start with a defective wireless card in one
>of the laptops, things have been working pretty well.
>
>But I have seen some unusual behavior on two separate occasions, both
>lasting 5-7 minutes where the wireless network simply disappears - it just
>isn't there. The second time this happened was "perfect" in that I had time
>to try to debug the situation. The story ...
>
>1) Neither laptop could see the router's wireless network, but could see
>another wireless network in the neighborhood. SSID broadcasting is NOT
>turned off. Neither laptop was more than 30' from the router (one was in the
>same room).
>
>2) The wired connections to the router were working fine (including internet
>access)
>
>3) Things were working properly per the indicator lights on the router
>
>4) You could log into the router (using wired connections) and the router
>seemed to be very happy
>
>5) In both cases the mysterious disappearing network happened simultaneously
>with re-establishing connectivity after bringing back one (or both) of the
>laptops from "sleep mode" (could have been dead before - no way to know)
>
>After about 6 minutes into the last time this happened, I was ready to do a
>power on/off cycle on the router when suddenly the wireless network came
>alive.
>
>This is rare enough to be close to a non-problem in my mind, but is this
>just the nature of wireless networks?
>
>Thanks.
>
>dave

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