I can reconnect it but it grabs my neighbors "very low" signal and disconnect from my "very good" connection every few minutes. My wireless router (2Wire 1800HG) is in the same room, neighbors are 1-200 yards away. I don't have this problem with 3 other wireless PCs on the same network located throughout the house. Could I have a bad card (motherboard chip) on a 14 mo old laptop (it's been doing it quite a while)? I've tried disabling and re-enabling the connection and looked for a driver update (couldn't seem to get it to update) as well. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Oh, could my company's version of XP be causing problems with my 2wire router but like my neighbors linksys?
2006-10-05 16:08:20 · 3 answers · asked by deeta63 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Oh, and I removed the others from my preferred networks too.
2006-10-05 16:28:31 · update #1
You can try switching channels- you may be getting interference from devices like 2.4Ghz cordless phones, or even your neighbor's network. If it disconnects frequently on channel 6, try 11 etc.
You also could try a PCMCIA wireless card (They don't cost much these days) instead of the built-in wireless chipset in your Thinkpad. Might just be a compatibility issue between that and the 2wire.
But definitely check the "View wireless networks" screen and make sure that your neighbor's network isn't above yours in the list, which would make it higher priority.
2006-10-09 23:41:09 · answer #1 · answered by Proto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cswitch your router off and seem for on the spot networks on your computer. you'll likely locate yet another on the spot community on your section on your channel. replace your broadcast channel on your router to an empty one it quite is a minimum of three channels separated from the different on the spot community, e.g. in case you detect a community on channel 9, flow yours to Channel 6, in case you detect a community on channel 6 flow to 9 or 3 and so on. This develop right into a topic the position i lived till i moved my channels therefore, now it truly works no concern. wish this helps
2016-12-04 07:59:17 · answer #2 · answered by bednarz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two things, Make sure your computer is set to connect to your network automaticly.
Second, in the properties menu for your device, deselect connect to non-profered networks.
I had to do that for the same reasons. Though, i liked the people next door's service... it was faster than mine...
2006-10-05 21:43:59 · answer #3 · answered by Tdata 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋