I have a WRT300N setup for home network in 7200 sq. ft. house with three levels. The router is located in the geographical center and set to auto-channel, MIMO running named non-broadcast SSID with MAC address filtering, no WEP or WPA. The two nearest neighbor PC's have WUSB300N adapters to allow for direction movement of the antennas for max signal strength (5 bars in Vista and XP SP3). For one PC, all communication (current drivers, Windows Zero config) the USB adapter worked very well for 17 months of daily usage. Yesterday, on booting up, the adapter could not communicate with the router. All attempts at "repair connection" failed and no other software or hardware changes occurred, beyond Windows XP auto-update. No new interferences occurred with router like furniture movement, cordless phones, etc.
Another PC in a different room running the WUSB300N adapter (new) under Vista expereinced the same issue. I returned the new adapter for another with the same results. I swapped the adapters between XP and Vist machines with same result. Are the Linksys USB adapters flawed? Anyone have a suggestion why the WUSB300N lost communication and can't be restored? My PCI Linksys WMP300Ns don't have the problem. Can the auto-channel select on the router suddenly change channels while the adapter remains the same? I assumed the router and adapter communicated by auto-channel broadcast to eliminate interference.
Mark
Another PC in a different room running the WUSB300N adapter (new) under Vista expereinced the same issue. I returned the new adapter for another with the same results. I swapped the adapters between XP and Vist machines with same result. Are the Linksys USB adapters flawed? Anyone have a suggestion why the WUSB300N lost communication and can't be restored? My PCI Linksys WMP300Ns don't have the problem. Can the auto-channel select on the router suddenly change channels while the adapter remains the same? I assumed the router and adapter communicated by auto-channel broadcast to eliminate interference.
Mark