Woe!

[mousme]

After one glorious, heady evening of wireless internet, my connections are all borked. I just spent an hour and a half on the phone with Sympatico's tech support, and they got my regular connection up and running again. I am displeased.

I have the 1-800 number for the company that made my router (LinkSys, which the guy told me was good, but perhaps he lied in order to make his sale), and as soon as I've recovered from the last conversation with customer service, I'll be calling them to figure out what the hell is wrong with my router.

I tried the signal right in the living room (right before everything went to hell), and even then nothing loaded, so something must have gone horribly wrong with the wireless connection overnight. Why would it work last night and not this morning? God only knows.

Now I have to go about unpacking and setting up bookcases and CD racks and towel racks. I wish I hadn't had to spend all morning on this nonsense. :P

Comments

[tcaptain.livejournal.com]

Could there be interference from the neighborhood?

I had to replace my old router last month because between all the cordless phones, and the bazillion wireless networks, my poor router could no longer reach my bedroom with a signal (and that's only 15-20 feet away!)...it didn't help that there's one or two morons out there who seem to be switching their channels on an hourly basis.

After much consulting and experimenting I was forced to buy a new, more powerful router...now all is fine...

1) check the channel your router is broadcasting on (1 to 11 I think) and change it, see if that helps. Usually it does.

2) how many wireless networks are there?

3) does it seem to bork when you talk on the phone? (cordless)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

1) I don't know how to do that. *hangs head in shame*

2) There are about seven active networks around here, including mine.

3) Can't say that I've noticed one way or the other.

[tcaptain.livejournal.com]

7 active networks is a fair bit...but not unmanageable.
It might really be only a channel issue (Interference).

In your router documentation there should be instructions on where to change the channel. It's USUALLY not very complicated...basically surf the admin webpage for your router, find the setting, change it and let it cycle itself.