Hi Dave, a few things.
First, flash a new Firmware on right away. You're oprobably experiencing
lockups in the code. I use both tomato and dd-wrt. Tomato is a bit more
stable and dd-wrt is a bit more feature packed, both are excelent. Also, do
check out open wrt.
Now if you flash to dd-wrt, tomato or open-wrt you'll be able to boost the
output power (the linksys is shipped to run at 40 MW from the factory but
can boost up to 200) note though you don't want to go much above 50%, you
could burn out the transmitter or over heat. You can next overclock the
processor to help improve the forwarding rate again boost up say 3 or 4
clicks in the combo box. The new Operating systems include QOS and lots of
other functions including making the device a client, bridge or repeater.
That aside, other things to try are using channel 1, 4, or 8. There is a
wierd sequencing and that can overlap but using the lesser known channels
can help assuming nobody near by is using that channel as part of their
spread spectrum. Also, does this happen when you use your microwave?
Microwaves if they leak will cause this behavior. On the linksys you really
want to use WPA instead of WPA2 unfortunately. True to Cisco's business
model they under power the hardware.
Hope that helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave"
To: "'Blind sysadmins list'"
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:13 PM
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] wireless router occationally dropping signal
Hello,
I've got a 2wire 2701 dsl modem. I've got it in bridged mode since i
don't like it's dhcp or firewall abilities so it's wireless nat and other
features are off, it's a bridge only.
Behind it and serving my network is a Linksys wrt54g2v1 wired and
wireless router. It's using the Linksys supplied firmware 1.0.01 although
1.0.03 is out i'm not yet decided to update to that or to a linux firmware
package called dd-wrt. Does anyone have this particular router and using
either the linksys 1.0.03 or the dd-wrt linux firmware?
The problem i'm trying to solve is that occationally the wireless
router either drops signal or something interferes with a machine's
receiving of it, i haven't figured out which. When this occurs the box needs
a power off, wait a second or two, then a power back up it'll usually get it
back then.
Question, is there a speech-friendly way to determine signal
strength in bars of your router and another router not on your network, this
is in xp? I've got another one, the machine in question picks it up with
only one bar, and dropped a signal. Now it could be either the one bar other
network, maybe we're on the same chanel, i have already switched from 6 to
11, or my refrigerator which is in almost perfect line between the machine
in question and the router. Moving the machine isn't doable, moving the
refrigerator obviously isn't, moving the router might be. I'm not sure if
this is causing my occational signal drop, it doesn't happen all the time.
I'm just guessing.
Any assistance appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave.
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