Problem with Linksys WRV54 and Dell 9300.

[-Sean Casey]

My laptop can connect to the router wirelessly, but after conencted even with the signal at "excellent" I can not do anything. When pinging the router I get 5 or 6 success and then 2-3 minutes of timed out and then 5 or 6 more sucesses.

I bring my laptop to work and connect to workds wireless network and it works fine,

At home I connect my PDA to the wireless network and it works great with no problem.

So I'm a bit lost, my a laptop works elsewhere, and other devices work at home. It successfully connects and get an IP Address through DHCP and then fails to ping the router except for a couple seconds here and there.

I know my signal sucks due to interference at home since there are no less than 15 wireless networks visible at any given time (8 of which are not secure, and 3 have the persons name as the SSID).

It has been working fine. Last night my wife tried to use the wireless and it failed to work. I restarted the router. No change.

Any ideas?

 

[-Sean Casey]

I've been working on this and just can not figure it out. I keep changing settings and get ni change. It connects with no problem shows some traffic until it gets an IP and then goes on periods of 3-5 minutes with no access and then a few more seconds of traffic, then nothing.

I really need to get this going within the next few weeks, before my wife starts school again.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

The wrv54 had some growing pains...firmware wise. Make sure you have the latest.
Since you have lots of other neighboring WLANs..make sure your SSID is unique..and try different channels..such as 1 or 11. Also make sure your admin password has been changed. For security..use WPA or WPA2, not old WEP.

 

[-Sean Casey]

Yes lattest firmware, unique SSID, different channel, etc. No problem for about 3 months, and then it all stopped working with the laptop. I would think it was the laptop except for the fact that it works with works network. I did try a few of the open ones around here as a test and none of those work either.

So I'm thinking that maybe the internal wireless on the laptop might be getting interference. I might just go and get a cheap USB wireless NIC and see if it works.