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Wireless adapters won't work on my desktop
Arkan
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Okay this has been extremely frustrating and I'm about ready to punch a baby so forgive me if this isn't completely coherent.
I've been trying to get my desktop onto wireless because it needs to be away from any hardline access points for the next 5 weeks (long story). And no matter what I do I cannot get anything to work reliably - I have tried 3 different wireless adapters from 2 different brands and some internal, some USB and all of them have the exact same fucking problem.
Sometimes, they work great. Awesome! Sometimes they work terribly. But more often than not they work terribly, like "take 5 minutes to load the front page of google / over 10000 ping in online games terrible". But I know they can work perfectly because every now and then for a couple tantalizing half-hours they'll work amazing, like I forget I'm even on wireless-level amazing.
It isn't the range. I could take the laptop I'm on right now - the 4-year old laptop - and take it 10 yards further away from the router than my desktop is and it gets a fantastic, reliable connection.
I have 2 other computers with wireless adapters hardwired into them (like not peripherals) - the aforementioned laptop and a mac - all of which work great with the wireless. No problems.
I have reset the desktop, the wireless adapter (via the network connection tool), the router, and the modem in varying sequences and invoking various voodoo gods all the while. No dice. Baron Samedi did give me a bitchin' suit though.
So what the fuck is going on? Is there some firewall or some shit in my router than only blocks peripheral wireless adapters, some bullshit setting in these adapters that makes them run like a thousand asses leaking diahreah, or are there just fucking gremlins eating my wireless connection on only one computer? What the fuck can I do to fix this bullshit?
I've been trying to get my desktop onto wireless because it needs to be away from any hardline access points for the next 5 weeks (long story). And no matter what I do I cannot get anything to work reliably - I have tried 3 different wireless adapters from 2 different brands and some internal, some USB and all of them have the exact same fucking problem.
Sometimes, they work great. Awesome! Sometimes they work terribly. But more often than not they work terribly, like "take 5 minutes to load the front page of google / over 10000 ping in online games terrible". But I know they can work perfectly because every now and then for a couple tantalizing half-hours they'll work amazing, like I forget I'm even on wireless-level amazing.
It isn't the range. I could take the laptop I'm on right now - the 4-year old laptop - and take it 10 yards further away from the router than my desktop is and it gets a fantastic, reliable connection.
I have 2 other computers with wireless adapters hardwired into them (like not peripherals) - the aforementioned laptop and a mac - all of which work great with the wireless. No problems.
I have reset the desktop, the wireless adapter (via the network connection tool), the router, and the modem in varying sequences and invoking various voodoo gods all the while. No dice. Baron Samedi did give me a bitchin' suit though.
So what the fuck is going on? Is there some firewall or some shit in my router than only blocks peripheral wireless adapters, some bullshit setting in these adapters that makes them run like a thousand asses leaking diahreah, or are there just fucking gremlins eating my wireless connection on only one computer? What the fuck can I do to fix this bullshit?
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What 802.11 routers and adapters do you have floating around in this mess? A,B,G,N?
Are you using your operating systems wireless software to connect or the software that comes with the adapter, if any?
Yes. I'm not a complete moron. Just half of one.
Currently: N router, N adapter.
The first two adapters came with their own interface for wireless connections. I checked, and tweaking pretty much every setting in the options for them every which way didn't help. The newest one does not and I'm using the OS' interface. All 3 had drivers on CD which I installed.
I'm on Vista if that helps. I also tried using Vista's network diagnostic thing - no dice, even when it was running as slow as frozen tar it said there was nothing wrong with my connection.
Is your desktop trying to use a static IP address to connect with the router? And does the router actually see your desktop despite your desktop's inability to not drop those packets. Can you access the router from your desktop?
Another dumb question, not to be taken personally, have you tried these USB adapters with your laptop or other computer to assess their performance?
I may be grasping at straws, but at least you are getting bumps out of this right?
I don't know how to check any of those things you mentioned in the second paragraph but if you tell me I'll give it a shot.
A reinstall of windows over the top of the current version didnt fix it.
I had to format and install a completely fresh version of windows on the now blank hard drive to solve that.
Okay. Linksys routers have an address, as do nearly all routers, 192.168.1.1 that you can key into a browser to access the router itself and its software.
To check what your gateway address is set as: Start Menu -> Run -> enter: CMD -> enter: ipconfig at the prompt
You should then see a listing of addresses, and the one you want is Default Gateway. Entering that into your browser will bring you to your routers settings, hopefully you know the password for the router so you can poke around and see what is being forwarded to where, etc etc. You'll want to look for a DHCP table or clients list or something about providing information about the connected computers on the router. Generally your router's company should have a guide for this on their site or maybe with an install disc or something.
To check if you are asking for a static or dynamic IP address, you'll need to right click on your connection under Network Connections ( being a silly goose and assuming you use Windows ) and bring up Properties. In the window of the General tab scroll down to Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and bring up those properties. Then just make sure all of the Automatic or obtain automatically options are selected under both the General and Alternate Configuration tabs.
If there is stuff in there already, write it down just in case it does need to be there and doing the above worsens your current condition.