twoflowers
Newbie   Posts: 1 Registered: 19/9/05 Status: Offline |
posted on 19/9/05 at 14:43
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hi my new packard bell comp installed with
btvoyager1050 wireless adaptor cant find my voyager
2100 wireless router...distance is 12m...any ideas..ty...
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Caladan
Newbie Posts: 1 Registered: 23/9/05 Status: Offline |
posted on 23/9/05 at 05:19 |
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 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 |
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