alt.internet.wireless

"John Navas" wrote in message
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> 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.
>

You might well be right here about a defective router. But at the time of
the apparent "failure" there was nothing going on other than a single laptop
trying
to connect. But failures can come in many forms.

Thanks.

dave

>
> 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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