Message-Id: <20050316081636-14929-7@2rosenthals.com>
Date:  Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:04:22 -0500
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From:  "Julian Thomas" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [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.

 
-- 
 Julian Thomas:   jt@jt-mj.net    http://jt-mj.net
 Usually in the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State!
 -- --
 All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts
 you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them
 together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
 --IBM maintenance manual, 1925



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