[Hester]

I am having troubles with my laptop - it ain't wireless anymore.

I moved it four feet to the left and lost wireless connectivity. Not just on the desk but anywhere in the house.

I have talked to D-Link for many hours (probably more than five hours), I have replaced the wireless adapter, tried a USB wireless adapter, tried a Linksys wireless adapter, replaced the DI-524 router, tried a Linksys wireless router. All with no luck. Buy it, take it back the same day. The signal strength varies from "very weak" to nothing at all. The router is two feet from the laptop.

I took my laptop in, the wireless works fine on their bench.

So now what?

There is a 2.4Gig cordless phone in the room - I have VoIP, where am I supposed to put the phone?

Does anyone have any ideas? Anything else I might've missed?

What else is there to do or try? Other than buy a new laptop (I am VERY tempted)

[usababe]

hm....I have Netgear and it works great. What version of OS do you use?

i believe other wireless products can effect your connection, such as a wirless mouse.

[-Mario-]

HUmmmmmmmmm... have you tried and see if your computer still works from its old location... if it does, then change the of your Router... I am thinking the the Antenna is not so omnidirectional.

Just a thought

[ziggy]

what kind of laptop?

[ziggy]

If it's an acer like my buds you have to go into the BIOS to hit the switch,mines right on the keyboard.

System restore might help you out. if your router is working(I have the same as you) then you should be able to connect a block away if it's working properly.

[ziggy]

Hester Hester:

I am having troubles with my laptop - it ain't wireless anymore.

I moved it four feet to the left and lost wireless connectivity. Not just on the desk but anywhere in the house.

I have talked to D-Link for many hours (probably more than five hours), I have replaced the wireless adapter, tried a USB wireless adapter, tried a Linksys wireless adapter, replaced the DI-524 router, tried a Linksys wireless router. All with no luck. Buy it, take it back the same day. The signal strength varies from "very weak" to nothing at all. The router is two feet from the laptop.

I took my laptop in, the wireless works fine on their bench.

So now what?

There is a 2.4Gig cordless phone in the room - I have VoIP, where am I supposed to put the phone?

Does anyone have any ideas? Anything else I might've missed?

What else is there to do or try? Other than buy a new laptop (I am VERY tempted)

Maybe someones sucking your bandwidth,have you password protected your router?

[Hester]

It is an Acer. It just plain old stopped working.

It's been Windows XP for a few years, it's been near the cordless phones for a couple years.

It no longer works in the old location or any location.

The laptop and the router worked together wirelessly for almost two years.

The internet still works fine if I'm hardwired into the router. And there is a password on the router.

I formatted the laptop recently to see if that would fix anything.

[ziggy]

Hester Hester:

It is an Acer. It just plain old stopped working.

It's been Windows XP for a few years, it's been near the cordless phones for a couple years.

It no longer works in the old location or any location.

The laptop and the router worked together wirelessly for almost two years.

The internet still works fine if I'm hardwired into the router. And there is a password on the router.

I formatted the laptop recently to see if that would fix anything.

Dont know if yours is the same but some acers require you go into the BIOS to switch for wireless.Something must have happened like a crash that could cause that to stop recognizing the router. I would do a system restore,pick a date when you knew it was working properly.

If it still wont work ask one of the guru's on here how to boot into safe mode(f8) and enable wireless in the BIOS. This is an acer fu*k up,I dont know of many other laptops that put you through this except Acer.

[Blue_Nose]

Hester Hester:

It is an Acer.

There it is.

Mine's a piece of junk, too... right now I'm looking at an old monitor I had from my previous computer, because something burnt out in the laptop's. Also, for some reason the touchpad likes to kick in and out at random - it not only doesn't work, the computer doesn't even acknowledge that it has a touchpad.... driver, everything gone. I figured out, though, that plugging a USB mouse in seems to 'remind' it that it has a touchpad, and then it works fine.

I'm likely going to get a new one instead of trying to get this one fixed... don't buy Acers, people!

[bossdog]

Hester Hester:

I am having troubles with my laptop - it ain't wireless anymore.

I moved it four feet to the left and lost wireless connectivity. Not just on the desk but anywhere in the house.

I have talked to D-Link for many hours (probably more than five hours), I have replaced the wireless adapter, tried a USB wireless adapter, tried a Linksys wireless adapter, replaced the DI-524 router, tried a Linksys wireless router. All with no luck. Buy it, take it back the same day. The signal strength varies from "very weak" to nothing at all. The router is two feet from the laptop.

I took my laptop in, the wireless works fine on their bench.

So now what?

There is a 2.4Gig cordless phone in the room - I have VoIP, where am I supposed to put the phone?

Does anyone have any ideas? Anything else I might've missed?

What else is there to do or try? Other than buy a new laptop (I am VERY tempted)

I had 2 2.4GHz phone, my wireless router with my VoIP all in the same area when my connection went nutts. My VoIP phones even stopped working. I bought some longer cables and spread all the devices further apart and I have no problems.

[usababe]

never heard of an Acer....must be junk cuz I only know good stuff! j/j