bjzielinski
IS-IT--Management
Currently I have a Netgear MR814 (v1) wireless access point / router to connect to my wireless internet connection. I have an antenna on my house that picks up a signal from several miles away and drops it down to a coax. The coax connects to what looks exactly like a cable modem. That part is not the issue here. What happens is that the wireless connection (from tower to my house) will drop out occasionally, usually once or twice a week depending on weather, interference, etc. , but usually for less than one second. This causes my router to lose connection, and me having to manually reconfigure the router to locate the DHCP through the cable modem, etc., it will not auto-detect the line. When I hook the cable modem directly to my PC via cat5, WinXP will reconfigure the connection and all will be working again after a disconnect.
To make a long story short (too late I know), I am looking to upgrade this to a 802.11g router/AP that will not have this problem. Anybody experience issues such as this, or know of a rock-solid router that will auto-detect the connection upon disconnection? I realize I will have to upgrade the card on the laptop as well, but this is not an issue.
Bill Zielinski
County of Midland, Michigan
To make a long story short (too late I know), I am looking to upgrade this to a 802.11g router/AP that will not have this problem. Anybody experience issues such as this, or know of a rock-solid router that will auto-detect the connection upon disconnection? I realize I will have to upgrade the card on the laptop as well, but this is not an issue.
Bill Zielinski
County of Midland, Michigan