wireless network dropping connections

lneilson · #1 March 19th, 2004, 12:38 AM

Hi
I just installed a cable modem with a d-link 634 wireless router I have a d-link 520+ wireless nic in my new dell demenision with xp home most of the time it has a link quality of 100% and a signal strength of about 80% I have a agnitum outpost fire wall and also one that came with the router their is about 10 feet between the router and my pc with nothing in between could some one tell me why it seems to lose the connection alot and sometimes takes as long as ten or fifteen minutes to reconnect this is my first experience with wireless and I know nothing about firewalls please help

lneilson

bAdWaYz · #2 March 20th, 2004, 02:23 AM

The first thing I would look at is if the settings in the router are correct. Next I would make sure that the wireless card ip,dns,gateway are all as they should be.

gmbastos · #3 April 6th, 2004, 04:40 PM

Is your home near of some ISP or ISP POP?

Or does your imediate neighborhood count several people with WLAN?

By the way, there are some wireless phone sets that may operate in the same frequency band of your WNIC. Check it out.

Is there any considerable grounded metallic body near the line between your router and your WNIC? Even if it does not seem to be multipath related, checking will not hurt...

It may be hard to determine if your home RF spectrum is overcrowded, but it does not seem to be LAN or fading related.

Perhaps, it may be close-field related. Experience allowing the router and the WNIC away about 15 feet, it is more than the strictly enough.

But, most likely, it can be RF interferece (also referred to as EMI).