[dba-Tech] For Rocky - Wireless Networking

I was referring to the prior post suggesting just changing the router to G.
If you changed the NIC and the router to G, that might help.

The network 'thewunetwork' may be a neighbor's network.  None of my
neighbors have a wireless network, so I do not know how it looks when there
are multiple ones.

The say it is desirable to change the default network name. 

If the connection is good, it may not be the hardware that is at fault.
Does your router give the IP addresses to the devices on your network
properly?  If not, your DHCP set up may be incorrect.

I have my network set up with 128 bit encryption, changed the SSID, changed
the default channel, limit MAC addresses to the two devices I have, and
limit the number of IP addresses given out to a range of two IP addresses
(since there is only two devices on my network).

Bobby

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin -
Beach Access Software
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:56 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] For Rocky - Wireless Networking


I was thinking of going over to Fry's today and get an 11g router.  But if
it's no more stable than the b there's probably no good reason to do it.

I changed channels again but it didn't seem to do any good.  The signal is
good and the wireless network is connected but I don't get email or internet
access.

When I look at the IP address it's not a good one - it should be in the
192.168.1.n range and it's some other strange address.  I got it reset this
morning and now it's working but very very slowly.

Also when I look at the available networks dialog box, I'm seeing a network
called 'thewunetwork' there along with our wire less network which is named
'linksys' (I should probably change that).

Any clues form all this?

Rocky