Re: wireless
 

:rolleyes:

"The great thing about Wikipedia, is that anyone can submit anything they want about any subject. That way, you KNOW you're getting the best information"

:p ;)


Ben

Re: wireless
 

It's also worth securing your router with the MAC address of your laptop, or any computer you hook up to your router. That way even though people can hack the WEP key - most people are incapable of changing the MAC address of their wireless card.

With regards the constant dropping of the connection, it's a function of Windows to check for the most powerful signal around and try to connect to that. I think it checks every 2 minutes, but can't recall because I'm not generally interested in Windows at all.

Try restart the router and then restart your computer. Check out your wireless networks in control panel->networking and make sure that the SSID of your router there and is set to connect Automatic.

Re: wireless
 

No I refuse to accept any of this.

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lol


Ben

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Grinch the point about WEP when it came out was that it was supposed to provide a connection as secure as a wired connection. Hence the term Wired Equivalence. That fact that it is a leaky old sieve of a protocol means it is not in practice, just name only.

Re: wireless
 

Reality is an illusion bought on by lack of alcohol... perhaps you need more?

Re: wireless
 

+1 to the Belkin comments - they are sh*te.
Our wireless router keeps dropping DNS information.
Sometimes NBTSTAT -R sorts it out, but mostly I end up having to reboot the router :(
Heap of sh*t!_

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Yup, I recently had a similar issue with a Belkin router constantly dropping my connection, had to keep rebooting the router. Dripped like a sceptic @rse to my ISP about it being a BT problem and to send out an engineer. They sent me a free replacement wireless router which has been working fine ever since :oops:

Re: wireless
 

Ohh drink.

Not lisening...

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What router did they send you as a replacement? If it wasn't a Belkin and is definitely working ok now, then I think I'll go and get a new router this week!
Cheers,
Pete