Wireless is a bitch.

Zsetrek

Bought a wireless router/modem for christmas (a BiPAC 7300GA Billion).

Periodically, my father's iBook laptop disconnects from the network and won't reconnect until I change the wireless chanel on the router.

Any idea what the problem might be?

Grimm

How many channels have you tried? Just switching back and forth between a couple, or going through all of them?

Zsetrek

Grimm wrote:

How many channels have you tried? Just switching back and forth between a couple, or going through all of them?

Going through all of them - but not systematically, I'll admit. Just selecting a new one at random, and in frustration, really.

I could always start going down the list, if you think that'll help.

DrFrylock

It might not be changing the channel that's doing it, but resetting the router (a side effect of changing the channel). Try finding the reset setting in the router and seeing if that does it, or change some other useless setting and save the changes and see whether or not that 'fixes' it too.

Ruckus

download net stumbler, scan, find a channel that's fairly open.

Zsetrek

Ruckus wrote:

download net stumbler, scan, find a channel that's fairly open.

I don't have a wireless card on my PC. Is there a mac equivalent?

supabeast

Kismac is an awesome Mac stumbler.

Grimm

supabeast wrote:

Kismac is an awesome Mac stumbler.

Agreed.

KisMac

KisMac on Wikipedia

Zsetrek

Thanks for the tip guys - installed, and scanned - nothing comes up, but I really have very little idea what I'm doing. I'll read up and try again in the morning.

Rook

What firmware are you using?

AbsoluteZero

This happens once or twice a day with my wireless router... strangely only when it is connected to the campus network though...

Anyways. Try unplugging the power cord from the router for about 10 seconds, then plugging it back in. That'll restart the router, give it a couple seconds to get going, and then try connecting to the wireless signal again.

That usually works for me.