Okay I have the worst luck when it comes to setting up a wireless internet connection. I've had problems for over a year now. Finally I changed from Ygnition to SBC DSL. Now I have a laptop that is wirelessly connected to a wireless Linksys router. The Xbox is hardwired into the router. Its been set up on that PPPoe thingy. The problems is that every few hours I lose connection to the router. Sometimes the connection will still be "connected" and I still wont be able to surf the web. And sometimes it wont even show the my wirless network. At this point my xbox which is hardwired will not work either. All I have to do is unplug the router for twenty seconds and everything will be fine again. But I hate doing that!!!!! Its stupid!!!!!! So what can I do?
I'm pretty sure its not the router. Linksys replaced the router for me. And I have tried Belkin and someother routers as well.
Make sure in your router's configuration where you input your PPPOE login information (username@sbcglobal.net and password area) that you enable "always be connected." The wording varies from router to router, but every broadband router has a tick box, radio button or selection of somesort to autoredial PPPOE if disconnected. The whole point of SBC rolling out PPPOE is because it is a "dial in" setup that limits the amount of bandwidth used across their entire network. Basically them having people booted from the net when they aren't using it allows them to sell even more DSL accounts without having to improve network-wide bandwidth. When DSL first surfaced in 1998 and 1999 it was an "always on" setup like Time Warner is now... but, they quickly changed it to a "dial in" setup with the use of PPPOE after DSL blew up overnight. Now, wireless routers have mostly made this a thing of the past because of the autoredial, but from time to time there are still connection issues. If for some reason you have auto-reconnect enabled and you are still getting booted you need to first update your wireless card drivers on yoru computer, because sometimes packet-loss from bad drivers can lead to the router bugging out... and second, update the firmware on your wireless router to the latest version. There should be some where in your configuration that tells you the current version along with the support website to update it from. There are also MANY problems with some of the wireless routers out there disconnected from the net because of "upload" problems... if you are getting disconnected while you are uploading a file to a website, sending an email with an attachment or anything else along those lines then there is most definately a problem with the router. The bottom line is wireless routers are a huge pain to troubleshout because they involve so many different aspects. Generally when troubleshooting you have to test, test and retest everything from the jack to the computer.
Anothe question...this one about a different computer and network. I use AOL on this computer. I keep getting popups all through out the day. Even when I am not signed on and the computer is sitting idle. These popups are I believe from Internet Explorer and not AOL. How the hell do I stop these?!?!?!
You could run ad-aware or some spyware program. That rids of pop-ups sometimes. And I have the exact problem you stated in the first post. No internet, but connection is shown. It's simmered down a bit in the past month. I've only had to reset it once. SBC Yahoo, too.
I had wireless internet with a Linksys router (can't recall the model, but it was about 3 years ago) that would go out every time my land line cordless telephone rang or was in use. You couldn't get back on until the phone stopped ringing or the call ended. Maybe you are catching some interference?
The linksys wireless routers used to be notorious for doing that. I did all sorts of stuff with it, but in the end, I fixed it by using a crummy SMC wireless router that someone gave me. It's worked like a charm. I don't know if the newer Linksys routers have the same problem, but it sounds to me like you are in the shoes I was in. I was able to do a hard reset (not just the simple button in the back or anything -- it's a big ordeal) and it would work for longer before locking up, but it would never really stop. As per popups, just follow my sig.
