dkdutt,
I have worked with a few routers in my time but never a thomson tcw710, so
I dont know how good they are. What I recommend you do is go on their
website normally they have a Driver/Support page, download the latest
firmware for the router in questions and hopefully this will solve the
problem of intermittent connection. If this does not solve the problem
contact your ISP they can ping the Router to check connection.
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rfengr
Junior Member Posts: 13 Registered: 8/11/07 Status: Offline
posted on 9/11/07 at 23:29
dkdutt,
Some good suggestions have been posted. If the outage occurs every 4
minutes it seems too regular to be something random like a cordless phone.
What you really need to do is do a site survey. Unfortunately, most site
survey is done with a 802.11 client so other signals like cordless phones,
microwaves, and other transmitting devices don't get picked up.
Nevertheless, at least see if there is another powerful wifi signal nearby.
Then you can play with you channel selection to move to a different
channel.
You can also try a directional antenna. My recommendation would be a panel
or a grid, they're ugly but they have high gain. The high gain will give
you a narrower beam which could also help isolate interference.
Sometimes the noise figure in the environment may just be too high. Moving
to a higher frequency, say 5Ghz could move you out of the interfering
band.
