Anyone have Linksys Wireless Router/Network?

[Minnie824]

We are trying to start setting up our Wireless network using the Linksys G product....we've gotten the router and our home pc working....sortof. It connects great, everything is fine, but then it disconnects after a couple minutes. I reconnect and it does it again....it constantly does this about every 2 minutes! Do I have some settings wrong, or something installed wrong, or what? Can anyone help? I tried calling Linksys but couldn't get thru last night, so I figured maybe someone here could help before I call them again. Thanks!

 

[jfulcer]

I've got the wireless B router, and had some problems initially...

What does your signal strength look like? I was having interference from our wireless video baby monitor which drove the signal strength down to 40-50%. If I got a connection, it would be ok speedwise but wouldn't maintain the connection for long - it kept dropping out on me. I switched the wireless router to a different channel and that solved the problem.

Good luck! DW asked me if I thought we would need the G router and I said nope, not really. The other stuff was on sale, and we got an amazing deal on it.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I have a G Linksys, and an A & G, B card, just waiting for the new Dell laptop. So, no advice from me, but I will be looking at this thread.

 

[Cindy B]

We have the B one... (at least that sounds right). and we have had no real problems. At first it took a while to get htings organized, but now nothing.

 

[helenabear]

I know that things like 2.4 Ghz phones can interfere with wireless like that. Also I found in a search that sometimes by changing the speed setting on the router to 'auto' from the default of '54mbps.' will fix intermitten loss of connection. Otherwise I am not sure since I am only still researching before I buy one of these. Good luck!!

 

[Rajah]

We have a different Linksys wireless router and on ours there was some setting you had to check so that it wouldn't keep dropping connection. Unfortunately, I don't remember what that was. :/

 

[jfulcer]

Originally posted by Rajah
We have a different Linksys wireless router and on ours there was some setting you had to check so that it wouldn't keep dropping connection. Unfortunately, I don't remember what that was. :/

Hey Rajah, was that the option in the config file that was like this:


set DROP_CONNECTION_FREQUENTLY = FALSE

??