[Gsot]

I just had a new computer built and decided to use a wireless router, however the connection doesnÂ’t lost for more than 20 minutes and the connection strength is low, which is surprising as I was expecting "excellent". I have no wireless phones in the area and the two computers are maybe 30-40 feet apart. IÂ’ve tried numerous things including disabling the wireless zero config but its still the same problem. Any responses are appreciated Thanks.

[Capricorn]

With my Linksys WRT54GS router, that's just about the same usuable range I get. I also have the Netgear WGT628v2 (Super G) and get closer to 50 foot before the signal gets too bad to use. I have a pretty typically constucted house.

WLANs are suseptable to lots of environmental influences. Things you can't see in your walls and floors can have a major impact on range. Heating and A/C ductwork, copper water pipes, electrical cable for example. You might try moving the WAP around to various places to see what the effect is. Sometimes 8-10 ft "to the left" can make a lot of difference. It also helps not to use 2.4 GHz wireless phones at the same time like you mentioned. (I use 900 MHz ones without any problems that I can tell.)

Other obvious stuff, but I'll say it anyway: try to not put the WAP on or next to a metal filing cabinet, bookcase, PC case, etc. Try to make sure that there are no large metal object like refrigerators in the line of site between the WAP and the wireless clients.

Oh, and welcome to the forum.

[Gsot]

Ahh ok thanks for the quick reply, i have some appliances in the way so i guess im just gona have to run a cord through the roof and go direct, its weird though. The person who build my comp came over one day to help me with the router and stuff and he got it running perfectly, with a great connection and all, then he leaves and not 30 minutes later the connection drops and i cant get it back to normal again... oh well, my cable has never been top knoch.
Thanks again

[Abhi255]

With a wireless router u can increase the strength of signal by increasing the channel from the web page of router(use channel 11) and ofcourse u can do advanced wireless settings on the router,like decreasing RTS threshold,Fragmentation threshold,becon interval etc.

[mikesgroovin]

you will not notice a change or increase in wireless range by changing the channel. all it does with 802.11b and 802.11g is change the 2.4GHz frequency that you are using to connect wireless devices with. for instance...

Channel 1 - is 2.412GHz
Channel 2 - is 2.417GHz
Channel 3 - is 2.422GHz
Channel 4 - is 2.427GHz
Channel 5 - is 2.432GHz
Channel 6 - is 2.437GHz
Channel 7 - is 2.442GHz
Channel 8 - is 2.447GHz
Channel 9 - is 2.452GHz
Channel 10 - is 2.457GHz
Channel 11 - is 2.462GHz

you just want to make sure that any other devices in the immediate area (2.4GHz phones, microwaves, other WAPs) are using a channel that isn't close to yours. If another is using Channel 6, then you should use Channel 11 or Channel 1...etc