fallscrape
12-01-2005, 13:44
I have two wireless AP's. One is a 802.11b AP, standalone and simply sits and does its job. Most of the time. The second is the WL-HDD.
The AP is my parents and the WL-HDD is mine. I'm disturbed to find that the AP is totally open and that they've bought new laptop with 54g in it, so it's not utilising its full potential on the 802.11b.
My laptop has its own issues and has a hard time connecting to the AP, but is fine on the WL-HDD. That's going back to HP tomorrow, once I've copied the HD to the WL-HDD.
So, kill three birds with one stone, I'm going to install WAP on my network. Five minutes later, I get called stupid by a friend (he's right btw) and I change to WPA. Unfortunately both my laptop and my parents are both having problems.
First, when I turn on either laptop, sometimes it'll see the WL-HDD and sometimes not. Sometimes it'll happily accept the stored username and password, sometimes it'll just say "limited connectivity". If I fiddle for about five minutes, I can get them both to connect. Randomly, it'll disconnect both laptops (not sure if it's the same time).
Oh, and if I send an email on the parents shiny new ACER, it blue screens on me. I've sorted that out, it is a 54g problem that can be solved by the latest intel drivers update.
We run both AP's. The WL-HDD has the same problem whether in secure or not. The AP is still fine, but the signal is weak, and WL-HDD is strong but intermittent.
Any ideas? I'm using normal latest firmware from ASUS.
The HD problem is that in the status window I get "File system inconsistence" constantly even after scans. Any way to get more info or fix it?
The AP is my parents and the WL-HDD is mine. I'm disturbed to find that the AP is totally open and that they've bought new laptop with 54g in it, so it's not utilising its full potential on the 802.11b.
My laptop has its own issues and has a hard time connecting to the AP, but is fine on the WL-HDD. That's going back to HP tomorrow, once I've copied the HD to the WL-HDD.
So, kill three birds with one stone, I'm going to install WAP on my network. Five minutes later, I get called stupid by a friend (he's right btw) and I change to WPA. Unfortunately both my laptop and my parents are both having problems.
First, when I turn on either laptop, sometimes it'll see the WL-HDD and sometimes not. Sometimes it'll happily accept the stored username and password, sometimes it'll just say "limited connectivity". If I fiddle for about five minutes, I can get them both to connect. Randomly, it'll disconnect both laptops (not sure if it's the same time).
Oh, and if I send an email on the parents shiny new ACER, it blue screens on me. I've sorted that out, it is a 54g problem that can be solved by the latest intel drivers update.
We run both AP's. The WL-HDD has the same problem whether in secure or not. The AP is still fine, but the signal is weak, and WL-HDD is strong but intermittent.
Any ideas? I'm using normal latest firmware from ASUS.
The HD problem is that in the status window I get "File system inconsistence" constantly even after scans. Any way to get more info or fix it?