I'm running a small home network based around the Netgear DG834G
wireless router. A PC and a Mac are connected via Ethernet and a PC
laptop and a Mac laptop are connected via wireless. The firmware is
V.2.10.22

Right now the wireless doesn't work and I've no idea why, what caused it
to stop working or what procedures I might use to test it. This problem
is reoccurring and intermittent. I can find no pattern in the router's
behaviour. Sometimes the wireless works and sometimes it doesn't. And
I've no idea why. Neither the PC laptop, using a Prism 802.11g card, nor
the Mac, using Airport, can detect any wireless signal. It was fine two
days ago and, as far as I know, nothing has changed. This has happen a
few times before - it stops working, it starts working.

Anybody any idea what might be causing this and what I might do to
rectify the situation?

Many thanks.
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Sam

Sam submitted this idea :
Try changing its wireless operating channel.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.org

In article <mr85l11o9e0gnhbbv8dngaplbb9mekte7a@4ax.com>,

I've managed to move the router about half a metre further away from a
cordless phone base station but I need to get a long Ethernet cable to
move it a long way away. It was about 1 metre away from this base
station now it's about 1.5 metres. This move hasn't made any difference.

How does a cordless phone base station interfere with a wireless router?
I understand that they're both wireless devices but what symptoms of
interference would I notice? The symptoms I've got? ie the wireless
network working and not working seemingly at random?

Thanks for your reply.
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Sam

"Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote in message
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I've had the same problem.

Strangely it seems to be really unstable when first used when I switch my PC
on.
But when you reconnect a couple of times, it seems to settle down and is
problem free for hours.

My DECT phones base stations are some distance away so that theory doesn't
seem to hold true for me.
I suppose it could be the neighbours.

My next port of call is to change the channels.

But it can be stable for ages with no apparent problems.

In article <odf5l15khvnvp59q7sf5uqrh6tq39th4i9@4ax.com>,

According to this article,

http://www.islandnet.com/~tmc/html/a...#Cross-Posting

cross posting is permitted if one is unsure which newsgroup to post to.

Just curious.

Still haven't fixed the router.
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Sam

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:51:21 +0100, Sam <Sontec@nospam.com> wrote:

cross-post is one message posted to many groups. One reply from any
one group would go to all groups usually.

multi-posting is several separate messages (could be the same messagE)
posted to different groups.

Phil
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londoncityslicker has brought this to us :
I have 2x DECT, 1 two foot away and the other about ten feet. I use the
laptop anywhere between 15 - 60 feet from the AP, through 2x
floor/ceilings and usually manage 54Mb most of the time. Only
occaisionally do I have problems, but the fix to get it back on again
is to simply change the operating channel - even changing it, then
changing it back to the original channel seems to work.


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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.org

Have you tried a different PC. I had problems similar once, and i found
that it was a PC problem.

Another thing to double check whether a signal is being received is to Use
netstumbler. www.netstunmber.com i think. This scans all channels and
SSid's for wireless signals.

Worth a try. If tht finds it, then its a problem with the PC. Cant say for
MAC's dont do much with them.



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