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McEngineer00 · Toontown Central Toon

Finally!!! A post I can really respond to.

We have had our wireless router for 4 years now and have ironed out all the problems. We have a generic Dell 1184 wireless router which I am sure is old school because of its age. Heather's computer is hardwired to the router and mine is wireless along with the girl's computers. Here are some of the lessons I have learned about a wireless network:

1. Never use a USB adaptor. They are very unreliable. This I know from experience and articles I have read on the internet.

2. You may want to get rid of your phones that use a 2.4 GHz signal. Your wireless network router transmits at the same frequency and the phones will "step" on the router's signal. I upgraded to 5.8 GHz phone system and a lot of the wireless network issues went away.

3. Get yourself a good wireless PCI card for each PC you want on the network. We have US Robotics cards in each of our PCs that cost in the neighborhood of $60.

4. Reset your network on occasion by following these steps:
Turn off you router and your modem (we have DSL) and wait for 10 seconds
Turn on your modem and wait for 10 seconds
Turn on your router and wait for 10 seconds
Check your internet connection via a browser - everything should work okay now.

We still have 802.11b router and it works fine. A 802.11g is better because of transmit/receive speeds but the real bottle neck is our DSL line. Unless you are doing massive amounts of filesharing amongst each computer, a "b" or a "g" router will suit your needs. I think there are other protocols that are available, but I would stick with a "b" or a "g" router.

Hope this helps you out a little. By the way, it took me a lot of research and trying different things before our network was reliable. Good luck!
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