Annoying wireless router

[Pavel Zaitsev]

В Чтв, 28/04/2005 в 22:31 -0400, Steven Nagy пишет:
> Hi everybody!
> 
>  
> 
> Maybe this is off-list, but I would appreciate it if somebody could
> give me an idea what’s happening.
> 
> I bought a Motorola wireless router at a BestBuy store in Toronto at
> Kennedy road in March, 2005.
> 
> I had problems with it meaning that the router does not transmit
> signal every time. I changed it back and I got another router having
> the same problem.
> 
> But as I saw, the guy gave me another router from the left side of the
> shelves and it was not sealed. I didn’t have problems for maybe a
> week. But today the same problem occurred and the router is not
> transmitting continuously.
> 
> I analyzed the signal with a wireless access point analyzer program
> called Network Stumbler and I got the following results:
> 
>  
> 
> http://www.stevenscreations.info/Download/MyRouter.jpg
> 
> This was a very bad situation. Now the signal returned back with short
> interruptions about every minute.
> 
>  
> 
> The router is still in warranty and last time I wanted to change to
> another model, for example Linksys and pay the difference, but the
> salesman from the store didn’t want to change to another model. Or
> there is a SMC model with 2 antennas. I tried to move the antenna,
> unscrewed and screwed back, it seemed to help for a short time, but
> not much.
> 
> I’m fed up with this situation to go back for the third time to the
> store and getting another defective router.
> 
> Did anybody have similar problems? Can it be because a power
> fluctuation? Or just the Motorola is not a good brand and the guy gave
> me another defective router which was put aside from another customer.
> I had to argue with him last time, because he didn’t even wanted to
> change it for me in spite of the fact that it has 90 days warranty and
> I bought it just a month ago.

Return it and get wrt54g, you can install linux on it and it seems
reliable. Its firmware is linux as well but not as opened up as hobbyist
stuff. Never heard of Motorola  selling routers, though their core radio
stuff seems better then that of most. So replace it with linksys or
d-link you'd be ok.
pavel

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