hi my new packard bell comp installed with btvoyager1050 wireless adaptor cant find my voyager 2100 wireless router...distance is 12m...any ideas..ty...

I bought the BT Voyager kit the other day (Voyager 2100, 2 1040 network cards) and am having similar problems.

The best thing I can recommend at the moment (until I've found a more useful solution to my problems) is to get hold of a cat-5 ethernet cable and connect to your voyager through that, also, make sure you use the setup discs provided with your network card since it automatically configures to find the voyager.

Presuming you have a cabled network card (as well as wireless) reset your Router (just turn it off and on) and wait a couple of minutes, then connect to the voyager with the cat-5 and go to your voyagers IP (default 192.168.1.1) in internet explorer or mozilla firefox (I strongly recommend using firefox).

~Hopefully~ You'll get into the voyagers configuration system (Whenever configuring your router, ALWAYS use a direct connection, like the ethernet cable, if the wireless gets interrupted whilst configuring you could be in deep kazam). The first thing you'll see here is the broadband setup system, if your on BT broadband this will be extremely easy to setup, I havn't tested with other ISPs, but try just entering your username and password for your ADSL and leave all the other settings as they are. If it connects, go to http://www.voyager.bt.com/2100/downloads.htm and get the firmware upgrade.

Install it, BE VERY CAREFUL DOING SO. Make sure your router or PC can't lose power, like before, if it does your screwed, permanently.

Anyway, once it's installed, it'll reset the router, once that's done connect again and click on advanced, click on advanced again to confirm and a list will appear on the left of the window. Look through the various options till you find the one involving channels (I can't remember which menu it's in and I'm at college at the moment). enable your wireless connection on your PC but STAY CONNECTED with the ethernet cable.

Get a pen and paper, or just use notepad, this is going to take some time.

Choose the option to use the protocol that ends with G, I can't remember all those pretty lil numbers in front but I'm sure you can work out what I mean.
Now change the speed from auto to 36mbp/s and set the channel to one.

Apply the changes and wait up to 5 minutes. If your wireless detects the network, great, but your not done yet.
Look at the connection speed for the wireless, it's probably going to vary between 1 and 48mbp/s. Write down the average speed and how much it's dropping.

Now choose the next channel (in this case channel 2) and do the same again, I find 3 minutes is enough to get a good idea of how good the channel is. You're going to have to do this with all 13 channels. Once your finished, just choose the channel that seems to be best and kick the speed up to 54mbp/s. This is as far as I've got, my routers getting constantly worse but hey, these things happen. I'll be calling BT tonight (yes, the danmed 50p/minute helpline) so I'll try to get back to you on what results I got.

If you can't connect at all, make sure there isn't anything that could reflect the signal, things like microwaves and cordless telephones are massive causes of problems in a wireless network. It's also best if there's nothing metal in the way and if it's going through a wall, plasterboard will be your best bet (as long as it doesn't have a metal insulation inside.

Personally I'm pretty close to taking my voyager back and exchanging for a belkin since most people tell me they're pretty good.

Just send me an e-mail if you want to talk, use amiswe@hotmail.com