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Wireless N...Strange Problems
My customer just installed a wireless N network, routers and all adapters. He has three PC's. PC1 can connect fine with a solid signal strength, speed, etc. PC2 and PC3 are laptops and cannot seem to 'see' the network at all...even while 3 feet away from the AP. The wireless G network installed previously worked fine but started slowing down over the last two months, thus the change to N. Obviously this could be a bad router or adapter, but that doesn't explain BOTH laptops unable to see while the desktop, which is also wireless, is not having any trouble. All products are Linksys Wireless N.
N is fairly new...heard of any troubles like these? Any ideas?
Thanks!
N is fairly new...heard of any troubles like these? Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Excellent advice. I will check all of those when I'm at the customer's home later today. Thanks for the article links mtz1of4, I was hoping I wasn't alone in my 'concerns' about N.
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OK, I replaced the router which improved the situation slightly, but still getting intermittent signals and drops. Having worked on MANY 'G' networks it's becoming pretty obvious that this 'N' setup is just not going to work, regardless of the configuration. I'm a little surprised that 'N' still has these types of problems considering the amount of product flying off the shelves. Oh, and yes I did verify the other adapters were uninstalled and no firewalls running.
Thank you very much for your input!
Jeff
Thank you very much for your input!
Jeff
Thanks for the points and more importantly for the update.
Any security (like encryption) should be turned off until you get the network working properly.