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Date:  Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:33:36 -0500
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] connnection keeps dropping out

Spake Harry,
With inexpensive D-Link wireless routers I haven't known whether the
source of problems is the radio and circuitry there, with interference
from other sources, or in the Netgear cards. But, I replaced the
router, which I would reset--with some difficulty-- but never test.
So, I've a flaky backup, and a surebet 4 port wired router/firewall on
the shelf for $30.

answering:
        "Julian Thomas" <jt@jt-mj.net>  ' message of:
        03/16/05  at 08:04 AM,
        About:[OS2Wireless] connnection keeps dropping out >First of
all, thanks for XWlan - this is a great aid!

>Thinkpad T23, ecs 1.1, Cisco 340 card.  Works well at home (Dlink
>WAP) and in Hampton Inns 2 nights on our trip south (we ran away from
>the snow for a couple of weeks on the beach in Fla; have to start the
>drive back on Friday:-(

>Place we are staying (a small apt complex) offers wireless internet
>via a Netgear router. It's worked mostly, although there is something
>flaky about the router that occasionally completely drops the
>connection, not only for me, but also for the manager; she goes in
>and resets it (pulling power) and the cable modem when this happens.

>However, I have been noticing that the signal seems to come and go -
>the xwlan widget will alternate between green bars (one, two,
>sometimes even three) and the searching indicator.  When it
>recaptures signal, the session picks right up where it dropped off so
>there's no data loss.  Moving the T23 slightly often seems to be what
>it takes to revive the signal, although there's no position
>(convenient or otherwise:-( that is consistently good.

>I'm speculating that it's one of the following:

>- weak signal (although netstumbler gives a good signal indication,
>and when it's up, XWLan says something like 31% and 11Mb).

>- Basic disagreements between the netgear router and my cisco card

>- Thermal problems with the card, although the problem doesn't seem
>to get worse after the machine has been on for a while, and I'm
>putting the card in the upper PCMCIA slot.

>I'll know better if I a) carry the machine to very close to the
>router [this is an option] and b) Friday, when we are again in a
>Hampton Inn.

>Other observations welcome.

> 

HPT
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