for some reason this started happening last night and has yet to cease. Im all of a sudden getting 75% data loss when sending to my router. It has worked flawlessly over the past year. Its either the USB antenna (Belkin) or the router (Linksys). playing WoW is horrible. 3000+ ms lag. anyway I can narrow down which one it is?
12/30/2005 4:25:48 PM
reset the router
12/30/2005 5:44:15 PM
Where do you live? Maybe someone else got one (or a phone, etc) as a christmas gift? Try switching up the channels, ssid (if yours is default still) and see if that improves. Just a simple ping test doesn't mean wireless loss. your adapter should have some sort of monitoring software to alert you to signal strength and quality.
12/30/2005 5:49:50 PM
reset the router and changed the channell. seems to be working a lot better.still can't seem to get better than 300ish ms on WoW
12/30/2005 6:13:01 PM
changed the channel again, now im getting 191ms in Wow.
12/30/2005 6:29:02 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#Channels_and_international_compatibility
12/30/2005 6:37:10 PM
use netstumbler to see what kind of interference is on each channel...it even picks up my microwave http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/
12/30/2005 7:54:07 PM
^ it says "A device attached to the system is not functioning" on the bottom status bar.
12/30/2005 9:06:43 PM
i know how to fix it...stop playing WoW and go outside
12/31/2005 4:36:01 PM