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Yet another wireless problem

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  • lindens
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    Ah right thats interesting about the channels. As this problem only started christmas day i wondered if the boy next door had some remote controlled car for christmas or something. yesterday we did change channels for about 30 mins until the connection came up again.
    Can we find out what channels the others are on then?
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  • espresso
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    lindens wrote: »
    Ah right thats interesting about the channels. As this problem only started christmas day i wondered if the boy next door had some remote controlled car for christmas or something. yesterday we did change channels for about 30 mins until the connection came up again.
    Can we find out what channels the others are on then?

    If the channel information is not displayed when you see other networks on your system, NetStumbler here displays channel info e.g.

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  • Cavey
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    lindens wrote: »
    Ah right thats interesting about the channels. As this problem only started christmas day i wondered if the boy next door had some remote controlled car for christmas or something. yesterday we did change channels for about 30 mins until the connection came up again.
    Can we find out what channels the others are on then?

    Yep, use Network Stumbler. It will list all available wireless signals including whether they are encrypted, signal to noise ratios and more, which is nice.

    Quick question - what are the product names/numbers of your belkin router and the adsl modem?
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  • lindens
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    The modem is Linksys ADSL2 modem with USB and ethernet
    The router is Belkin Pre-N 2000uk model F5D8230-4

    Just used network stumbler and it cant find any wireless network
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  • Cavey
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    I'm sorry, but I have to be a pain and ask more questions.

    What operating systems are PC1, PC2 and the laptop running? (XP Home or XP Pro?)
    Did you disable NAT on the Belkin device to put it into "Access Point" mode?
    Is the Linksys router this one here?
    Do you have the manuals for the router and the modem?
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  • lindens
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    Cavey wrote: »
    I'm sorry, but I have to be a pain and ask more questions.

    What operating systems are PC1, PC2 and the laptop running? (XP Home or XP Pro?) PC1 = vista ultimate 64 bit, PC2=XP home, laptop = vista 32 bit not sure which one
    Did you disable NAT on the Belkin device to put it into "Access Point" mode? no we couldnt get that to work. when we put it into APM PC1 stopped connecting. although we didnt really know what we were doing....
    Is the Linksys router this one here? yes it is
    Do you have the manuals for the router and the modem?
    they are online we are using these. belkin = http://www.belkin.com/support/article/?lid=en&pid=F5D8230-4&aid=6152&scid=221

    I dont mind about the questions!;)
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  • espresso
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    lindens wrote: »
    Just used network stumbler and it cant find any wireless network

    Which PC did you use NetStumbler on? If it was your laptop PC2, can you give more details - make/model? WiFi built-in or adaptor type?
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  • lindens
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    On PC1 it didnt find any
    On PC2 (XP one) it found ours and another belkin one on another channel.
    didnt try it on laptop, its a gateway one with a wireless dongle thing plugged into the side. stepdaughter not with us now til friday so cant add anymore details sorry!
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