Dlink DI-624 and DWL-G650 signal issue

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Hi,

I just purchased a DI 624 Rev C and a DWL-G650 for my Toshiba
Satellite runnung on Win 98. My problem is I seem to be dropping the
connection and my biggest issue is the signal quality goes to 60%
sometimes, and the signal strength almost never goes past 70%. The
laptop and the router are 1-2 feet apart. How come I can't get 100%
signal? I disabled WEP encryption, nothing changed. I also cannot
get 108 mbps although all the settings for it are on. I even upgraded
the firmware to 2.42 just recently.

What do you think? Should I dump this and get a Linksys instead?

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Go into the router's configuration utility and click on the Advanced tab and
the Performance button. Set the Super G Mode to Super G with "Static"
Turbo. You should then see 108 Mbps speed.

1-877-DLINK, 24-7

"Yousuf Khan" <news.20.bbbl67@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
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> bulent wrote:
> > I just purchased a DI 624 Rev C and a DWL-G650 for my Toshiba
> > Satellite runnung on Win 98. My problem is I seem to be dropping the
> > connection and my biggest issue is the signal quality goes to 60%
> > sometimes, and the signal strength almost never goes past 70%. The
> > laptop and the router are 1-2 feet apart. How come I can't get 100%
> > signal? I disabled WEP encryption, nothing changed. I also cannot
> > get 108 mbps although all the settings for it are on. I even upgraded
> > the firmware to 2.42 just recently.
> >
> > What do you think? Should I dump this and get a Linksys instead?
>
> Don't know what could be causing the lousy signal strength, have you got a
> concrete wall between the router and laptop? Anyways, in my DI-614+
router,
> if you go to the Advanced-Performance tabs in its administration page,
> there's an "antenna transmit power" setting, see if raising or even
lowering
> that doesn't help? Actually, I was recently reading an article on TechTV
> about if you have neighbours with WiFi equipment too, and if they're using
> their extra performance generating features, they'll pretty much bog down
> the rest of the neighbourhood and make everybody else's WiFi slower.
Here's
> the link:
>
> http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/ [...] 89,00.html
>
> Anyways, as for why you're not getting 108 Mbps, the answer is obviously
> because you don't have enough signal strength. You need at least 80%
signal
> strength to get those additional speedups.
>
> Yousuf Khan
>
>

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Yeah, I'd be interested in how this was resolved too since I am having the
same problem with the same equipment.

I have two desk units with the DWL-G520 pci cards communicating with that
same access point and they have great signal strength. Not the DWL-G650
laptop card, though. I can't get signal strength over 50% no matter how
close I am to the access point.

"Zack" <keayon@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Are you still having this issue?
>
>
> bulentnews@yahoo.com (bulent) wrote in message
news:<70f5edf8.0405051802.7855314e@posting.google.com>...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just purchased a DI 624 Rev C and a DWL-G650 for my Toshiba
> > Satellite runnung on Win 98. My problem is I seem to be dropping the
> > connection and my biggest issue is the signal quality goes to 60%
> > sometimes, and the signal strength almost never goes past 70%. The
> > laptop and the router are 1-2 feet apart. How come I can't get 100%
> > signal? I disabled WEP encryption, nothing changed. I also cannot
> > get 108 mbps although all the settings for it are on. I even upgraded
> > the firmware to 2.42 just recently.
> >
> > What do you think? Should I dump this and get a Linksys instead?

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Well, Microsoft's Wireless Connection status icon says signal strength is
excellent even when Dlink says it's poor.


"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 14:49:26 GMT, "Hank G." <hanknycNOSPAM@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >"Zack" <keayon@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >newsbeda6c8.0406030701.91e1418@posting.google.com...
> >> Are you still having this issue?
> >>
> >>
> >> bulentnews@yahoo.com (bulent) wrote in message
> >news:<70f5edf8.0405051802.7855314e@posting.google.com>...
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I just purchased a DI 624 Rev C and a DWL-G650 for my Toshiba
> >> > Satellite runnung on Win 98. My problem is I seem to be dropping the
> >> > connection and my biggest issue is the signal quality goes to 60%
> >> > sometimes, and the signal strength almost never goes past 70%. The
> >> > laptop and the router are 1-2 feet apart. How come I can't get 100%
> >> > signal? I disabled WEP encryption, nothing changed. I also cannot
> >> > get 108 mbps although all the settings for it are on. I even
upgraded
> >> > the firmware to 2.42 just recently.
> >> >
> >> > What do you think? Should I dump this and get a Linksys instead?
> >
>
> >Yeah, I'd be interested in how this was resolved too since I am having
the
> >same problem with the same equipment.
> >
> >I have two desk units with the DWL-G520 pci cards communicating with that
> >same access point and they have great signal strength. Not the DWL-G650
> >laptop card, though. I can't get signal strength over 50% no matter how
> >close I am to the access point.
>
> Maybe it's the vendor's software support applet that is wrong and the
hardware
> really *is* achieving full received signal strength?