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:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/products/story/0,24330,3671189,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/products/story/0,24330,3671189,00.html</a>
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.
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