- Jun 24, 2001
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I have two Belkin 802.11b cards and a Linksys 802.11b/54g (Preliminary 802.11g) router. I bought the router because range was crap between the two cards in AdHoc mode (I had to leave them right next to eachother to get 11mbps, less than a foot) and I couldn't bridge my card in XP without causing problems (I didn't want to continue using ICS and NAT when my ISP allows multiple PCs/IPs).
Range is better, but not much. I have about 75% strength in link quality and signal strength from the next room within line-of-sight. I can't get it to stay at a steady 100% even when I hold the laptop inches away from the access point. Of course, I'm not saying it should stay at 100% from this distance, but it should at least remain in "Excellent" range (It keeps dropping to "Good" or "Fair" when I'm only 5 feet away). Does this indicate interference? I live in an 80' trailer and I can't even go to the bathroom in the middle of the trailer without it loosing connection... and not a flaky on/off kinda loss, I mean staying lost until I get back in the living room or the room right next to the access point.
It irks me. I thought 802.11g has increased range and considering that it (inter)operates at the same frequency, I thought it would at least be a pretty strong access point for older 802.11b cards also. Could Linksys be purposely limiting the range of their wireless access points just to sell the range booster upgrade? I noticed that they started selling them around when they started making 54g products :|
Oh, and I noticed one other thing. I always leave "Transmit rate" set to "Fully Automatic" and in AdHoc it fluctuates depending on distance. With the router, it doesn't fluctuate at all. My utility always reports 11mbps even at the limits of its range before crapping out.
I have tried different channels. I noticed that my 900MHz wireless Wavebird controllers on channel 14 affect channel 11 in AdHoc mode, but they're turned off. I've also tried 802.11b channel 1 and am currently on Linksys' default channel 6.
Range is better, but not much. I have about 75% strength in link quality and signal strength from the next room within line-of-sight. I can't get it to stay at a steady 100% even when I hold the laptop inches away from the access point. Of course, I'm not saying it should stay at 100% from this distance, but it should at least remain in "Excellent" range (It keeps dropping to "Good" or "Fair" when I'm only 5 feet away). Does this indicate interference? I live in an 80' trailer and I can't even go to the bathroom in the middle of the trailer without it loosing connection... and not a flaky on/off kinda loss, I mean staying lost until I get back in the living room or the room right next to the access point.
It irks me. I thought 802.11g has increased range and considering that it (inter)operates at the same frequency, I thought it would at least be a pretty strong access point for older 802.11b cards also. Could Linksys be purposely limiting the range of their wireless access points just to sell the range booster upgrade? I noticed that they started selling them around when they started making 54g products :|
Oh, and I noticed one other thing. I always leave "Transmit rate" set to "Fully Automatic" and in AdHoc it fluctuates depending on distance. With the router, it doesn't fluctuate at all. My utility always reports 11mbps even at the limits of its range before crapping out.
I have tried different channels. I noticed that my 900MHz wireless Wavebird controllers on channel 14 affect channel 11 in AdHoc mode, but they're turned off. I've also tried 802.11b channel 1 and am currently on Linksys' default channel 6.