[CS-FSLUG] Wireless, smb and Windows

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

Site survey might be an interesting thing for you to look into. Channels
in different countries differ. In the US, It's 1-11 and they can bleed
into each other. You can only use 3 channels without any threat of
bleeding in the same area. 1, 11 and something in between, I think 6.
You should be able to pickup another wireless signal when your wireless
is off if that is the case.

 

You could compare the routing table and network config on the desktop
with the notebook. That'd be a start.

 

I have a wireless device that is just not dependable at home. I haven't
figured out exactly what happens, but it is consistently flaky in the
way only a hardware failures can be. :-)

 

JSR/

 

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From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz
[mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Nathan T.
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:22 AM
To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Wireless, smb and Windows

 

Hello list folk.

I don't know if I've complained about this already, but Windows doesn't
want to play nice over my wireless connection. To be honest I don't know
which is to blame exactly, I suspected the router at first since one of
my favourite internet radio stations hasn't played nicely since I got
the thing, but since then I've found that other internet radio stations
did work nicely so now I'm skeptical that the problem lies there. I now
suspect that the problem may be something in Windows, the network cuts
out for a few seconds after a consistent amount of time, it was either
40 or 80 seconds iirc, when I'm copying something from my desktop to my
laptop.

I was hoping I could get some advice on how to diagnose the problem, I
suspect playing with ping and trying alternative methods of connection
could work, but I thought it best to ask for help before I start
flooding the internet with the type of packets that are usually
associated with DoS attacks ;-) .If it helps I have a D-Link Dl-524
802.11G router, my desktop plugs in to the router thought a cat 5 cable
by a Realtek RTL-8139 based NIC and my laptop connects wirelessly via a
built in Atheros AR5005GS (802.11G capable) wireless network adapter.

I really don't know that much about wireless, but I've toned down the
antenna power on my router so it isn't very accessible in the far
corners of the house never mind outdoors, therefore I doubt that someone
has managed to get into my network; however if there was already someone
else using the same channel as me for their network (as I recall the
choices range from one to six) is it possible that might be causing
problems?

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