Help with Wireless Internet?

You don't need to see my network key . . .

I was in the livingroom, today, and noticed a box, unplugged, with "do not unplug" on its plug. it says "InnoWave" and "MultiGain Wireless" and "PCU57V" on it. google tells me InnoWave are an israeli "fixed wireless" company or something but their own website won't load.

the box looks all connected up to the phone line and stuff (I opened it up).

does anyone know anything about InnoWave or whether I can make use of this box? my laptop has wireless junk, in it.

I don't know if the thing's even connected--it is big and old-looking.

: )

it's possible that neither of those two wireless connections that you can see are even yours.

HOWEVER, I am having almost an identical problem to baaderonixx. I can't connect to my wireless network from my desktop at all; I can connect to some random unsecure wireless network from my neighborhood (probably from a cafe or a student or something). My laptop connects to my own secure network fine. Any ideas? Because I CAN connect to a network, that rules out my wireless card being bad, and because I can connect to my network with another computer, that rules out my router settings or my internet connection being bad. Actually, to be more precise, I CAN connect to my wireless router from the desktop, but it tells me that that connection has no internet connectivity. I get no such problems connecting from the laptop.

WTF?????

I am using the, er, not WEP security, the other one. I've tried both the Netgear wirless network conneciton program AND the built-in XP wireless software, same results from both.

I don't know why. My sister had a heavily infected PC, freaked out, slapped the full Norton on it and tightened it down so much the machine was unusable. A week later, she reformatted (not knowing what else to do) and started back up with just AV and spybot - happier PC.

luckily, i fixed it.

the end.

WTF kind of new card doesn't support the latest encryption format? fucking netgear, that is who.

someone explain the dumb Keys for me. a passphrase isn't enough? I generate these 20 char things, do I have to copy these all down and...put them on my computer? enter them as the password? why are there four generated but my wireless network connection program only has a field for one?

http://www.homenethelp.com/802.11b/index.asp

How fast is it (real world)?
A full strength 802.11b signal will get you about 3.5-4.5 Mbps without WEP enabled. With WEP enabled, expect 2.5-3.5 Mbps. As you put walls and distance between your wireless adapter and your access point, your speed will drop. Don’t expect to put more than a few walls between you and your access point.

Realistically, 2Mbps is faster than, say, a 512k DSL connection, but I dont know what speed cable connections run at. If they run at 2+Mb speeds then yeah, with WEP on conceivably you could see a drop in speed/bandwidth. Interference and such will add to it as well (if packets are dropping alla the place, pages take longer to load, and so on)

So, here's a weird issue: we have two mac laptops on an airport network. They generally get along fine, but sometimes Colette's laptop starts timing out on webpages etc, while mine is fine, and if I turn my airport off then her's starts working again. It's as if my machine is using all our bandwidth. Has anyone seen anything like this?

so if my wireless, which has always worked fine, suddenly stops working, what should i check? btw my wired still works.

Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Network Connections, right-click on Wireless Network Connection and choose either "View Available Wireless Networks" or "Properties", refresh networks list, hit "Connect" 100 times, look at the "Renewing yoir IP address" box for forever, pull hair out, swear, say fuck it and hook up a really long Ethernet cable to your laptop.

Wireless can go fuck itself.

yah dude i'm on a mac but that's pretty much been the story so far. i'll have my work pc laptop here on thurs to see if i should blame my comp or my network.

I have Clearwire, which is advertised as wireless but really isn't. Rather commonly it just stops working and I find unplugging the power cord and plugging it back in again always fixes it.

I had an old Netcomm router on which the wireless died but the ethernet still worked. And then the ethernet wouldnt work either unless you dropped it to 10mb/s which is a bit silly. Turned out to be a factory fault in that model. A badly soldered dry joint or something bizarre!

But yeah if having to reboot a modem all the time is a fix for it, it's probably time to get a new modem :)

yeah i've done the reboot multiple times as well. jesus, this router is less than a year old.

xpost to Trayce

Haha, well that would be very true except that this modem was a replacement for one which really did entirely quit working, so I was just happy that this one worked at all! Furthermore, they charged ME for the shipping to send the last one back!

I usually just go buy my own modem from a Tandy or Officeworks, Netcomm, Netgear and Linksys DSL modems are all pretty affordable anyways. I guess if you're on cable with some specialist ISP-only router thats not an option tho.

Well, the prob is that in my area I can't get DSL. That would be ideal. It's either this or getting a cable modem which means I have to have cable TV along with it and that's more money for something I don't even want.

my shit kept dropping all the time, it was making me insane, it was the modem. make sure your modem isn't frying, mine was hot to the touch.