Wireless Help...
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techrecoveryOk.. Here's the situation...
My friend calls me and tells me that they tried to set up a wireless network in their house. None of them really know what they're doing with computers. Anyway, she said that some them had been working and had stopped and that some of them weren't working at all. Anyway, this is what I found....
As far as I can tell everything is set up properly on the access point as I can hit it from my friend's computer who is roughly 20 feet from the AP. The girl in the room directly above the AP(we'll call her roommate 2) is also able to hit it with no problem as well as the girl living directly below the AP (roommate 3). Now, here comes the fun part.
There is one girl upstairs (roommate 4) who cannot see the house's AP but can see APs from the houses next door. My first guess was that she was out of range of the AP but I moved her antenna (It's an external USB box) to the top of the door at the bottom of the stairs (line of sight to the AP) and it still did not "see" it. She is running XP Home on that computer w/ a Linksys USB adapter.
Roommate 5 has a laptop running XP that is unable to connect to the internet even though she can connect to the AP and obtain an IP from it.
Roommate 6's computer was not able to connect according to my friend but that roommate was not home so I could not verify this. (She is on the same floor as the AP).
Roommate 7's computer is located on the same floor as Roommate 3 but was password protected so I could not verify if it could connect (and they did not know).
Finally Roommate 8's computer is an old Pentium running Win 95 so yeah.. it's not going to connect anyway.
So what does everyone think? Can I save their network or should I reboot the AP and start over from scratch?
My friend calls me and tells me that they tried to set up a wireless network in their house. None of them really know what they're doing with computers. Anyway, she said that some them had been working and had stopped and that some of them weren't working at all. Anyway, this is what I found....
As far as I can tell everything is set up properly on the access point as I can hit it from my friend's computer who is roughly 20 feet from the AP. The girl in the room directly above the AP(we'll call her roommate 2) is also able to hit it with no problem as well as the girl living directly below the AP (roommate 3). Now, here comes the fun part.
There is one girl upstairs (roommate 4) who cannot see the house's AP but can see APs from the houses next door. My first guess was that she was out of range of the AP but I moved her antenna (It's an external USB box) to the top of the door at the bottom of the stairs (line of sight to the AP) and it still did not "see" it. She is running XP Home on that computer w/ a Linksys USB adapter.
Roommate 5 has a laptop running XP that is unable to connect to the internet even though she can connect to the AP and obtain an IP from it.
Roommate 6's computer was not able to connect according to my friend but that roommate was not home so I could not verify this. (She is on the same floor as the AP).
Roommate 7's computer is located on the same floor as Roommate 3 but was password protected so I could not verify if it could connect (and they did not know).
Finally Roommate 8's computer is an old Pentium running Win 95 so yeah.. it's not going to connect anyway.
So what does everyone think? Can I save their network or should I reboot the AP and start over from scratch?
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Date: 2003-09-14 07:26 pm (UTC)