*Vanity* Any Freeper help with Wireless Networks? *Vanity*

me | 2/13/05 | Me

[birbear]

I'm sorry to distrub your bandwidth, but I'm looking for a helpful Freeper.

This weekend I tried to install a wireless network at my parents house. I purchased a Linksys wireless router, and a Linksys PCI Wireless Network card.

Setting up the wireless router on my parent's PC was a breeze... I followed the step by step directions and it went on like a champ.

The PCI card also wasn't much trouble. I found a slot in my Dell, and it configured itself.

(Oh, both systems are running XP Home.)

Okay so the PCI card found the router, and it connected, but I wasn't able to hook to the internet. (My parents have a cable modem via Comcast High Speed Internet). I found something that said, "repair connection" I clicked on that, and I had internet access -- for a little while.

After about three hours, I went back to my PC, and discovered that although the router and the PCI card seemed to be talking to each other, I had no access to the internet.

I tried everything I could think of, rebooting, reinstalling the card, etc... and still no access to the internet.

My dad, today... tried reinstalling the router...went through the step by step guide... got it all up and humming... and voila, my PC was accessing the internet again... for a little while. But after a short time, we lost it again. We tried rebooting both systems, tried reinstalling everything again... and this time no luck at all...although the PCI card is still finding the router.

We've tried changing channels, chaning settings, changing everything we can find, all to no avail.

Can anybody give me an idea of what to look for? What I need to do to keep the internet up and humming on my PC? And what to click on when it does go down?

Thank you

[birbear]

thanks to everybody for their help. I called Linksys tech support and they diagonsed the problem as connecting to a neighbor's wireless router.

I just changed the name, and everything is working great now.

Thank you.