why does my wireless internet keep going out?
Junior User
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: California Central Coast
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Read your router's manual, typically for Linksys you access your router settings through your web browser, the factory IP address will be 192.168.0.1, user name is left blank, password is admin. That should get you into the control panel.
You need to click on Wireless and you should see something like this;
Give your self a unique wireless network name (SSID), check disable for Wireless SSID Broadcast. Cahnge the channel if you wish.
Then click on the Wireless Security tab;
Choose your desired level of security and set it up here. Use the help menu if you get lost.
Next, Wireless MAC Filtering;
Follow this example.
Then click on Edit MAC Filter list;
Find the MAC addresses for the computers you want to have access and enter them here.
You need to click on Wireless and you should see something like this;
Give your self a unique wireless network name (SSID), check disable for Wireless SSID Broadcast. Cahnge the channel if you wish.
Then click on the Wireless Security tab;
Choose your desired level of security and set it up here. Use the help menu if you get lost.
Next, Wireless MAC Filtering;
Follow this example.
Then click on Edit MAC Filter list;
Find the MAC addresses for the computers you want to have access and enter them here.
Elder User
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 878
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From: Cornelius, Oregon
Might be the government jamming you... lol.
Seriously though, the company in the office directly below ours, and in the building across the parking lot does a lot of contracting for some of the Three-letter agencies, and when they test certain things it messes up our wireless network in the office. It also disables my bosses keyless-entry for his mercedes.
I'm not lying about that either. Ever since they moved in the boss hasn't been able to use his key fob in the parking lot, but it works fine everywhere else. Well one day the boss just happened to be in the parking lot with one of them and jokingly said something like "Are you guys jamming my keyless entry?" The lady just smirked and said "maybe". Then a couple days later he saw the same lady in the parking lot and she asked him if the keyless was working now. Sure enough it was. So something they're doing is jamming him.
Seriously though, the company in the office directly below ours, and in the building across the parking lot does a lot of contracting for some of the Three-letter agencies, and when they test certain things it messes up our wireless network in the office. It also disables my bosses keyless-entry for his mercedes.
I'm not lying about that either. Ever since they moved in the boss hasn't been able to use his key fob in the parking lot, but it works fine everywhere else. Well one day the boss just happened to be in the parking lot with one of them and jokingly said something like "Are you guys jamming my keyless entry?" The lady just smirked and said "maybe". Then a couple days later he saw the same lady in the parking lot and she asked him if the keyless was working now. Sure enough it was. So something they're doing is jamming him.
Posting Guru
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 2,420
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From: Langhorne, PA
I'm not sure how to do this, but here goes my general theory. When I had low/no signal problems( with my Netgear), I prompted the wireless network wizard to find a usable signal..or repair the connection in my system. What I found when I viewed the available wireless connections list, was that one of my neighbors' signal was being detected by my network interface cards' antenna. I basically had no Netgear signal coming in, but the wizard found a weak signal and listed it as an option.
Maybe u could disable ur wireless router( unplug power) and see if your PC can detect another neighbors signaln during the problem times.
Maybe u could disable ur wireless router( unplug power) and see if your PC can detect another neighbors signaln during the problem times.
Lead Driver
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 8,140
Likes: 4
From: Oak Harbor, OH
I'd stay away from the wep encryption. It's useless once you've turned on the mac address filter. I use the filters and nothing else. If the router sees a foreign mac address it WILL NOT let it connect to the network, PERIOD. Once the system is up and running turn off the SSID broadcast and you're network is as secure as you can make it. WEP encryption does the same thing as the MAC addy filter, denies connection to anyone without a "password" that is insanely long and hard to get right every time even if you write it down. Change the router's channel from 1 or 6 (usually the default) to 11. That will put it in the highest possible output mode. You'll have to reconfigure the computers to connect. Here's another thought, maybe that's the time when you're computers are updating themselves, or someone on the network is using limewire or napster.
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 4,562
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From: Southern MD
Originally Posted by ASM
Read your router's manual, typically for Linksys you access your router settings through your web browser, the factory IP address will be 192.168.0.1, user name is left blank, password is admin. That should get you into the control panel.
You need to click on Wireless and you should see something like this;
Give your self a unique wireless network name (SSID), check disable for Wireless SSID Broadcast. Cahnge the channel if you wish.
Then click on the Wireless Security tab;
Choose your desired level of security and set it up here. Use the help menu if you get lost.
Next, Wireless MAC Filtering;
Follow this example.
Then click on Edit MAC Filter list;
Find the MAC addresses for the computers you want to have access and enter them here.
You need to click on Wireless and you should see something like this;
Give your self a unique wireless network name (SSID), check disable for Wireless SSID Broadcast. Cahnge the channel if you wish.
Then click on the Wireless Security tab;
Choose your desired level of security and set it up here. Use the help menu if you get lost.
Next, Wireless MAC Filtering;
Follow this example.
Then click on Edit MAC Filter list;
Find the MAC addresses for the computers you want to have access and enter them here.
ASM. . .
Outstanding!!!!!!!
Well done. Rep points sent your way.
GREAT post!!!!
Keith
Junior User
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 99
Likes: 0
From: California Central Coast
Hey I'm glad it worked out for you! Glad to be of help! Let us know if that indeed did the trick.
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