DmeSg

Is it a problem of too much signal? I've had this problem with a Buffalo AP and found that it was switching from the external panel antenna to the internal antenna at which point the connection would all but drop until it switched back. I think that there was so much signal available that the AP thought it could use the internal antenna instead of the extenal panel. I disconected the internal antenna and the AP has been fine ever since. I've also found that the Netgear ME101 works better than the DLink and will be looking at the Linksys wireless router shortly with http://www.sveasoft.com/ firmeware installed as another client altenative.

- I have a good old head scratchier of a problem where a existing client that has been working for about 7 months now can't get connected?? I will give you a little history and maybe someone can help me remove the blinders. I have a client that has a dedicated node on her boat dock and a d-link 810+ inside her house for connection. This configuration was working fine for about 7 months and then started showing problems. When you ping from her computer through the d-link to the node you get good response times but some timing out, so I would ping from the node to her computer and same thing and throughput has drop from 500 to 33k. I check the S/N in SigSpy and the d-link has a good 10db difference. So in the few weeks of trouble shooting this mess I have replace the node on the boat dock and the d-link in the house and run all around with NetStumbler taking readings. She now has basically a new system and still the same problem She has good signal strength at the node and everything looks good but the real life connection is terrible to say the least. I think some new interference might be playing a part but I can't find it. What are some good tools for searching for interference, "something cheap :) "? Any suggestions on a more detailed way to check both sides of a wireless link would be helpful to. I am wondering if static build-up on the omni could be a problem? I can't ground the omni because their is nothing to ground it too. I also see that the node keeps dropping the dlink connection down to 1meg when I do a DmeSg command.