Wireless issues

[cdawall]

I just moved to Qwest DSL I previously had cable through midco. After getting a netgear modem I have been having issues were my PS3 will no longer connect to my laptop as a media server and my laptop will always loose connectivity to the network when the PS3 attempts to connect or search for a media server. No settings have been changed the only thing different is the netgear modem. Everything worked as advertised before. With the Belkin I was consistently being punted from the network with any kind of stress put on it (webpage, download etc), that seems to have calmed down with the Linksys other than when I try and connect as a media server.

I am using channel 10 (have tried 1, 3, 6 and 6). I have a Linksys E2500 (rev 1.xx) and previous to it I was using a Belkin F5D8235-4 (rev 2033) both routers have identical issues. I have tested with a known good cable and tried 2 other brand new ones on top of that one. The netgear is a DM111PSPV2. Obviously to my knowledge everything is plugged in correctly phoneline->modem->yellow WAN port. All firmwares are updated. mediashare settings are basically open with no limitations. Using WPA2-PSK AES encryption was using WEP befor (could there be an incompatability issue?)

The Belkin has a access point mode. Do I need to force it into being an access point for the netgear to work correctly? I have never had to set one up that way...and the new Linksys doesn't have that option to my knowledge I would like to use the Linksys if at all possible since it is new and a good bit quicker than the Belkin.

 

[Jetster]

See if you can get it to work correctly without any pass key

 

[micropage7]

first i would reset it first and see does it works without wpa

 

[cdawall]

Changed to WEP and the issues are now gone. Only downside is I loose wireless N on the laptops and am down to G speeds (150mbps vs 54mbps)

 

[TC-man]

Hi,

Perhaps try the following with the Linksys E2500:

- go to basic wireless settings (example) with your webbrowser via 192.168.1.1;
- then change the channel width to 20 MHz instead of auto (20 or 40 MHz);
- as for the channel, try not to overlap with other people's wifi's channels and test each channel to see which works best for you; for me channel 9 works the fastest for some reason, while channel 12 doesn't work well at all (it's really slow, even when it does not overlap with the neighbor's wifi);
- and try it with SSID broadcasting if you haven't already broadcast the SSID; some wifi enabled devices work better with SSID broadcasting;
- Also try to access the hidden advance wifi settings of the E2500 by following this article; change the beacon interval to e.g. 50 instead of the default 100, see if there's some improvement.

If nothing works, try to reset the router: http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?pid=80&vw=1&articleid=4008 And setup the router once more; make a backup of the router settings, so you don't have to setup the router manually each time you have reset the router for troubleshooting.

Good luck!

 

[cdawall]

I already forced to 20MHZ, I do that with all my routers, I will try and get you photo of my channel, SSID broadcasting is enabled. I will try unlocking the hidden features.

 

[cdawall]

Flipped to 50MS polling. Also added a 2TB Seagate NAS box