spinster
September 24th, 2004, 04:56 PM
greetings, all. stumbled here by google.
so, here's the deal: last weekend, my friend replaced the case on my web/mail/router (debian) box & did an apt-get update & upgrade. this should have NOTHING to do with my wireless router, as it runs from the hub to connect to the LAN before venturing out into the world. can't even connect to the internal lan from a spot where we used to be able to.
upon completion, signal strength from my d-link 802.11b router was diminished in the livingroom a tiny bit, and obliterated upstairs. The machines running in the livingroom at the time (laptops) were debian, kernel 2.2, windows 2000, and a dual boot of windows xp with fedora core, kernel 2.6x. we could still recieve data just fine.
upstairs, however, the signal strength on the win 98 box (desktop- did a re-install of the card because, well, it's windoze & that's what you do with that os, right?) with a usr 802.11g card got 87% signal strength- picked up the network name, would not ping the router or anything else by ip or dns. i took the win 2k box up there & the same thing happened.
i thought that, perhaps the materials in the new case were interfering with the signal (as such things happen with the x10 i use), so i velcroed the router to the ceiling. the signal strength went up to 97%, but still no data, no ping home. ip/ifconfig half empty.
we didn't change anything on the router & it works fine downstairs & is located directly underneath the machine upstairs.
any ideas? i'm totally at a loss. we tried changing channels, but that didn't help at all.
3 machines with 4 different os work downstairs, and i think maybe someone tried their debian machine downstairs, too.
it's just COMPLETELY odd.
any ideas/help/anything are greatly appreciated.
thanks,
mae ling
so, here's the deal: last weekend, my friend replaced the case on my web/mail/router (debian) box & did an apt-get update & upgrade. this should have NOTHING to do with my wireless router, as it runs from the hub to connect to the LAN before venturing out into the world. can't even connect to the internal lan from a spot where we used to be able to.
upon completion, signal strength from my d-link 802.11b router was diminished in the livingroom a tiny bit, and obliterated upstairs. The machines running in the livingroom at the time (laptops) were debian, kernel 2.2, windows 2000, and a dual boot of windows xp with fedora core, kernel 2.6x. we could still recieve data just fine.
upstairs, however, the signal strength on the win 98 box (desktop- did a re-install of the card because, well, it's windoze & that's what you do with that os, right?) with a usr 802.11g card got 87% signal strength- picked up the network name, would not ping the router or anything else by ip or dns. i took the win 2k box up there & the same thing happened.
i thought that, perhaps the materials in the new case were interfering with the signal (as such things happen with the x10 i use), so i velcroed the router to the ceiling. the signal strength went up to 97%, but still no data, no ping home. ip/ifconfig half empty.
we didn't change anything on the router & it works fine downstairs & is located directly underneath the machine upstairs.
any ideas? i'm totally at a loss. we tried changing channels, but that didn't help at all.
3 machines with 4 different os work downstairs, and i think maybe someone tried their debian machine downstairs, too.
it's just COMPLETELY odd.
any ideas/help/anything are greatly appreciated.
thanks,
mae ling