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    Wireless seems to stop...?

    any ideas why my wireless seems to work fine and then whilst downloading a larger amount of data e.g 100mb just seems to stop transfering anything. it stays connected to the router but just no more data. ?

    i have to repair connection and then works fine again till the same problem


    any ideas?

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    What make and model is your router?

    My old Linksys WAG54G used to overheat when transferring any files larger than about 50Mb!

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    its a US robotics. works fine if using a network cable.

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    Owt in the logs ? You moving the laptop around while copying ? Also do you get the same on a lan transfer or is it just when downloading from the internet ?

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    Odd, I know its a granny sucking eggs scenario mate, but are your drivers up to date? Is your OS up to date? (I seem to remember something very similar happening with my network until Microsoft released a hotfix for XP that prevented some buffer overflowing causing the network connection to drop)

    Ooh, you dont have any other kit working on 2.4ghz do you? Video senders, wii remotes, some wireless alarm systems, dect cordless phones? As I had big problems when I first added wireless to my network at home with connection drop outs, disconnections and awfull throughput. Turns out that the access point was clashing with my wireless video sender, once I changed the access points channel it worked flawlessly.And still does now!
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    To see which channel is best for your house, install netstumbler as it can show you the signal/noise ratio and then go walking around your house. Cycle through each channel to see which one gives you the highest signal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abeacock View Post
    To see which channel is best for your house, install netstumbler as it can show you the signal/noise ratio and then go walking around your house. Cycle through each channel to see which one gives you the highest signal.
    Lets hope he has a laptop mate! Might be a bit awkward with a fullsize PC! Good suggestion though, nice piece of software!
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    i have done all the usual stuff, updates etc usually happens after 80mb. netstumbler is a good piece of kit.

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    I would think this is a corrupt drivers issue, but more details are needed.

    Like the os, how much ram, what driver version for the wireless , what access point, what firmware. what settings on the ap

    Have you checked you temp folder ? if not clean it out and issue a chkdsk i know it's a long shot but even when transferring files it still gets put into the temp folder before it gets written to the folder you selected.

    Could even go to the extreme of removing the wireless and drivers and reinstalling the windows tcpip stack



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    Few steps to narrow down the problem (some have been mentioned).

    1) Do you have more than one PC in the house? If so does it happen on other PCs too?

    2) Does this only happen when downloading large files from the internet? Again if you have two machines, try copying a large file from PC->PC (a few hundred meg) and see if it stalls again.

    3) Where is your AP located? I have absolutely NO respect for ANY consumer level wireless router these days, having had such bad experiences with many makes recently (linksys being the worst - ironic considering their parent company) and many of them overheat when the wireless module is put under stress (say by transferring lots of data at high speed). So check that its not next to a radiator, or that its not hot to the touch.

    4) Check for interference from other networks - netstumber should do for PC or KisMac for OSX. What you are looking for is any network on the same channel, or within 4 channels of your network. Set your network to be as far away from any others that you find. So for example, most routers default to channel 8. If you scan with kismac and find that 4 networks are all on channels 8 and 11, then you should switch your channel to channel 1.

    5) Check for dropped packets - ping the router (ping -t) for a while (10mins or so) and see if you get any dropped packets or response time peaks - you should be seeing a response time of 1ms or less to your router. If you get dropped packets or high response times then its a sign that your wireless module is dieing.

    6) How old is the router? Still got your reciept? If so try and get it swapped out and then see if you have the same issue.

    If you can let me know the results of those tests I can probably suggets more things

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