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card dropping connection

Post by B-Con » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:40 am

I just bought a D-Link wireless network card for the family computer today, I'd been meaning to get one for a while and I was at BestBuy and it was on sale so I snatched it....

the comp's about 40 feet away from the router with just one wall between them and their on the same story.... I can NOT establish a connection, tho, Windows gives me a list of availible networks, I select mine, and it immediately drops it....

I assume this means that my card is too weak? I wudda thought that 40 ft would be coverable by a (normally) $50 card, but I can't find anything on the box or instructions on the strength of the card :?
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Post by pozican » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:47 am

Do you have a computer closer to your AP that you could try?

I doubt that that is your problem, but it would eliminate some possibilities....
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Post by B-Con » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:22 am

my laptop can connect....


I broke down and called (gasp) the D-Link tech-support, and the guy walked me thru every possible thing (which I'd already done) and in the end concluded that it must be the fact that the router is made by NetGear and it's having a problem communicating with the D-Link card :?

So I called NetGear, but since it's been more than 90 days since purchase their fat asses won't help with any "configuration" problems, only hardware malfunctions :roll:


btw, signal strength is at 42%, so that's not the problem....
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Post by GhostHawk » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:31 am

I've actually noticed that to be a problem before. A lot of the 'mainstream' wireless products will not communicate with different brands. I don't know if this is a flaw, or done purposly, but I have seen this same thing many times before.

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Post by The RØnin » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:05 am

B-Con wrote:the comp's about 40 feet away from the router with just one wall between them and their on the same story.... I can NOT establish a connection, tho, Windows gives me a list of availible networks, I select mine, and it immediately drops it....
I had the same problem, the cause was having more than one network in my auto connect list with roughly the same signal strengh... the card would never know which network to associate with and drop connections imediatelly after it associated.

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Post by B-Con » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:04 am

there's only one network even availible, so I know that's not the prob, thx tho.....
GhostHawk wrote:I've actually noticed that to be a problem before. A lot of the 'mainstream' wireless products will not communicate with different brands. I don't know if this is a flaw, or done purposly, but I have seen this same thing many times before.
goshdarnit it all and may hell freeze over.... now I have to return the blasted thing.... I'm just glad this isn't true of RAM and mobo's and the such :roll:
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Post by hot_kamote » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:00 pm

Im also having the exact same problem. Im using a D-Link Card on my laptop and We have a belkin Router at home(its in the basement.. The connection is always low when im in my room (which is in the guest house.) but when im in the rooms above the basement it works fine. Is there any way to change the rangE? how?

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Post by pozican » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:34 pm

I believe it operates on the 2.4 ghz frequency range....

You could get a 2.4 ghz brick amplifier and install it in between your antenna and up the power leaving the AP -- but if you boast all the power going through the ap you run the risk of smoking the circuitry.

Talk to some HAM radio operators -- they know all about brick amplifiers -- might not know much about AP's but they know their radio gear.
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