Re: Wi-fi is lossy for some but not others

Severach speaks the truth! To this day I haven't found a Wireless N router that did anything special over a trusty old wireless G router. I think the big price drop reflects this. Also every time I would connect one of the wireless N routers B was hopeless, and suddenly some of the neighbors SSID's quit showing up (despite new ones popping up). Pick up InSSIDer, it's an awesome free program, and run it. It will show you who's broadcasting where. It's also showed me when one of my neighbors routers was going out and sending out piles of...

Re: Wireless woes that I have sorted out over the past year.

OK, very strange and slightly profound discovery just now. I had been planning on replacing my router, or recapping it, but I just had a feeling this wasn't my issue. I did end up replacing the power supply (which was putting out 11.9 volts at no load!) with a 1 amp power supply from an old set of PC speakers had, VERY overbuilt for this job .

Anyways, I started thinking, what have I changed around the time this problem popped up, and oddly enough, the only thing I had done was to install an updated...

Re: Wireless woes that I have sorted out over the past year.

I opened this, and another WRT54G2 V1 router today, there are 2 caps, both su'scon 220uf 25 volt. Both routers caps look intact, no swelling or leakage that I can see. Both of the routers look pretty toasted under the Broadcom chip, they've actually discolored the PCB. I'm not sure if someone bricked the other one, I've had it laying here for a while and decided to open it, it lights up but I get no connection through it.

Re: Office Depot Ativa Wireless G Router AWGR54 by Belkin

Very well done!

Re: Wireless woes that I have sorted out over the past year.

Well guys I got another gremlin!!! I don't know if the crazy weather out here is causing the electric to be flaky or what, but the Linksys WRT54G2 is dying on me. I am pretty sure this one IS the caps inside causing my problems because it smells strongly of burnt electronics. I'm going to get a loaner router off ebay (probably a refurb wireless N of some kind) and pull this one apart to see what's going on inside.

I read through some of these threads, and instead of bringing up months old threads I figuered I would start a new one. My wireless trouble started when I set up a streaming network in my home. I have an Xbox 360 wired in the living room, Xbox 360 wireless in the bedroom, 2 laptop PC's, my main PC in the living room (all 3 wireless) and frequently would have visitors over who would use the wireless. The trouble I started having was that I would frequently have to reset the router and modem, supposedly because of conflicts with my cable modem (Motorola surfboard that I own, router is a Linksys...