Wi-Fi Connection Problems After Pc Overall

Hey all,
I having some problems connecting to the WiFi signal in my house and I’m hoping someone’s expertise with be able to help me out.

Some background info. I moved into my current flatshare two months ago, I have a desktop and bought a Mircronet wireless LAN PCI adaptor (model number SP06GK) which I put in my rigs PCI slot. It was all good I had no problems connecting to the internet.

The router is in my flatmates room and I am in the room next to him, I haven’t been able to get a good look at it but it’s an O2wirelessbox, with o2wirelessbox.lan. I am a newb to all of this and don’t really know what to look for.

I decided to upgrade my rig and sent I to my mate who built it three and a half years ago, I got a brand new motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. G31M-ES2L, new 500 gig Western Digital HDD WD5002AALX-00J37A0, and new power supply. I use windows xp professional service pack 3

I got my PC back the other day and installed my network card drivers, but since then my connection to the wifi is really flakey, even when it says the signal is strong and link connection good I can’t always connect. Sometimes it’s absolutely fine, for about 20 minutes, then goes again. I tried disabling the adaptor and enabling again but it only works for a while. I reinstalled the network card drivers but it’s still the same. I rebooted the router in my flatemates room but it hasn’t made much difference.

Would a high gain wifi antenna help? Or is my network card not compatible with the new motherboard?

Any help much appreciated. I have attached a xirrus wifi inspector screen shot and a screenshot of the network card configuration display.

Cheers

Neill

 

Try disabling the connection software that the network card uses and turn on Windows Zero Wireless configuration and use it to control the wireless connection. I think the problem is the software.

 

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I was unable to get online to see your answer until just a minute agao, meanwhile I had been discussing the situation with my housemate and he offered to reset the router, and now my connection is fine! Weird! I don't know why this happened.

Neill

 

It could be anything from the DHCP not assigning to the MAC address being needed to be 'seen' by the router.
Glad you got it sorted.

Remember though that if the router is capable of Wireless N (300MB p/s) that you need to use WPA2 to get anything over 150MB p/s