Despairing with Wireless problems

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oh c'mon! there must be someone out there who can help??

> Hi.
> Please HELP. If it's not one thing it's another!
> I'll try not to waffle but give as much detail as possible.
> We started off with:
> D-Link DI 624 router
> D-Link DSL 300g+ modem
> 1 Pc (A) cabled to router
> 2 PCs (B & C) wireless Air PlusXtreme G adapter
> 3 laptops wireless Air PlusXtreme G adapter
> All XP
> All McAfee AntiVirus
> XP Firewall disabled on all machines.
>
> Everything worked really well for a few months. Then connection started
to
> drop more and more often. A lot of the time not reconnect by itself until
> one day couldn't get it to work at all.
> Called support (several times) and to cut a long story short they deduced
> that there was a problem with the modem and said to send it to them for
> repair. Still waiting for replacement.
> In the meantime, I hooked up the Wireless router to a spare Wired router
> (Dray Tek) in order to use a spare USB modem. (this is how we had it
set-up
> for months before when we first switched to wireless, but we ended up
> getting the D-link modem because we couldn't use voice on MSN
> messenger )Worked fine with no problems at all. for couple of months.
>
> But now were having major dropping problems. This time we reconnect
> automatically and sometimes you don't even know it. But it's constant, in
> the middle of chatting on MSN messenger, (in fact that doens't restart at
> all). So we thought maybe we had too many Pcs on wireless, although
> initially it all worked so well for months.
> So we cabled 2 laptops to the router, D-link (because the DrayTek is only
a
> pass through for the modem) cabled Pc 'B' to the router to act as host (as
> it's in the same room as the 2 laptops, and switched Pc 'A' to wireless.
At
> first it was a pain as every few minutes all wireless machines would die
> from the internet and not see the network, so I had to 'factory set' the
> d-link router, over and over again until it finally settled down. Took
> almost a whole day.
> So we now have
> Pc 'B' cabled
> 2 laptops cabled
> Pc 'A' & 'C' and 1 laptop wireless
> All cabled machines working like a dream. Fast and no dropping.
>
> PC 'C' connects to the internet for a second and then can't connect AT
ALL
> and only sees the network intermitently eventhough the little green
thingies
> show 'signal strength good'. That pc is on the second floor. But signal
was
> excellent when we first became wireless.
> PC 'A' which is in the next room to the router, shows signal strength
going
> between good and poor but even when it's good browsing the internet hangs
> or doens't load or takes ages and checking these posts on OE, the
connection
> dies and says can't connect to server so I have to keep trying for a
minute
> or so. And MSN just disconnects constantly. There's no pattern. it can be
> logged on for hours and then in the space of one hour can be disconnected
5
> times.
> Driving me nuts.
>
> These are my questions
> Why was the wireless so good in the beginning and so poor now?
> Could I be so unlucky that both modem and router have problems?
> Have I screwed up somewhere?
> Is it something that I can sort out????
> Should I chuck out the Wireless router and go back to all cabled??????
> Should I hang myself????????????
> Jen
>
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