Belkin Wireless Router Keeps getting lost?

Question

I have a Belkin Wireless Router. For some reason I keep "losing it". I can still see all the other routers in my building, just not mine. And since everyone else has there's encrypted, i cant just piggy back off of them till mine comes back. I called Belkin and they said that my router was getting lost in the clutter of the other routers. They had me input the routers "ID" into the laptop, but if I do that, I cant use the wireless network at school!

Is there a way to make my Router Stand out? Mabey if I encrypt it? Help! My wife is going to kill me if I cant fix this!

Answer 1

Have you tried changing the channel? Usually they are on Channel 11 by default. I believe another one you can try is 6.

Other things to look at are, do you have a wireless phone or anything else that uses the 2.4GHz band?

You should be able to use the network at school, even with a static IP for yours. You just need to add a connection with a different SSID and tell it to connect to whichever one it finds. You will need XP SP2, I think, though.

Answer 2

if you can fix this you wife cant kill you

you conncet the ethernet cable to the back of the router on the port that is marked ethernet then you take the other end of the cable to the ethernet card on on the back of your pc you conncet it to the port marked ethernet

then you conncet the other cable to the back of the ruter port that is marked DSL then you take that cable to the modem box conncet it to the port marked on the modem marked DSL
then you conncet the modem cable box to your phoneline box
conncet the power cable to the router and put the power on
now you put in the cd driver that came with your router
and you install the network drivers
now you need to set up a network id & password on the router
you will be told how to do all that when you install the drivers & software for the router
when you have install the drivers and software fo r the router
your need to restart the pc
when your back at the desktop
you will see a network icon in the taksbar by the pc time
if it has a red X on it right click it and click on enable
if you dont see a network icon in the taskbar
click on start/control panel
click on
network and internet connections
icon
then click on network connections icon
now right click the
local Area connection
icon and click on properties
tick the box
show icon in notification ares when connected
tick the box
notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity

now click on
then authentication tab at the top

tick the box
enable IEEE 802.1x authentication for network
tick the box
authenticate as computer when infomatiion is available
then right click
local Area connection
and click on enable
now your router internet will log online with in 45 seconds
when your router is online you conncet your phoncable to the modem marked
phone

now when your router is online

Answer 3

I had a Belkin once and once was enough. I kept losing the signal to it atleast 3 times a day! I finally threw it away and got me a Linksys WRT54G and haven't had any problems with it.

Answer 4

Use Linksys instead and name the SSID something you will remember i:e: My own freakin network! or something like that also you might want to change your channel

Answer 5

Do you have it setup to broadcast the SSID?