🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:35:48 -0400, "JANA" <jana@NOSPAMca.inter.net>
wrote:

>If you are going wireless, you have to rule out the possibility of 
>interference, and the possibility of the wireless devices going 
>defective.
>
>If your router has jacks for a hard network connection, I suggest to 
>connect the computer directly to the router. Run this way for a while to 
>prove if it is the wireless that is the problem.
>
>If the wireless is the problem, it may be the transceiver at the 
>computer, or the transceiver in the router. I would think the one in the 
>computer would be easier to substitute to test it.
>
>If the router is proven okay and with a new transceiver for the 
>computer, then the transceiver in the router (most are not changeable), 
>may be defective. At this point you would have to try a new router to 
>know for sure.
>
>Many times when I have seen intermittent or failing wireless 
>connections, the fault turned out to be an interference from something 
>else.

The three wireless devices:

- An ancient Mac G3 laptop, that I never move.  It has a wireless card
in it that I purchased at the same time as the router (5 1/2 years
ago), and is about 8-10 feet from the router, with zero walls between
them.

- An IBM (Lenovo) Thinkpad that is typically used 25-30 feet away, on
the same floor, with two walls between it and the router.  It came
with wireless capability built in, about a year ago.

- A desktop machine that is one floor below, maybe 15 feet away, the
floor but no walls beween them, and that's been in place for six
months.  It was preceeded by a much older computer, Netgear wireless
card, that was in the same location for three years or so.

Anyway, I didn't just "introduce wireless" to the household; we've had
it for several years.  And the internet outages hit even the main
computer that is hardwired to the router, then disappear when I
recycle the router.

Perhaps I can play around with plugging the computer into a different
router port.  Although I'm at about 50 hours of what I am guessing
100% uptime for my connectivity.