Wireless Broadband Problem
Wireless Broadband Problem
After several months of trouble free (and fast) service everything went downhill. Web Pages taking 5 or more minutes to load, mail servers timing out or disconnecting when trying to send/receive, then I suddenly receive 6 or more duplicates of each email, download speeds of 2.97KB/s, 36KB/s, 12.4KB/s, 6.5KB/s. then everything will return to normal for a few days/hours. My ISP claims that it can’t possibly be on their side of the connection and offer the standard “is it plugged in?” type of assistance. I suspect the Broad Band Antennae is not properly aligned or its receiving some type of interference. The ISP’s Handyman who installed the antennae used a laptop to adjust it. Does anyone know of a utility or program that I could use to monitor the connection?
Update
I found one called cricket graphs at http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
If you have a 2.4Ghz or 5.4Ghz feed you are going to see this alot. I have had people in rural settings have the same trouble and even lose connection completely simply because the wind was blowing and trees were slightly bent in the wind blocking the line of the antenna signal.
You may want to run a spyware program such as spybot S&D just for kicks and see if there are any resource hogging programs robbing your internet connection in the background.
One simple way to get an idea of what is using the connection is to (if in xp) open the task manager and see if the network traffic is idle or in use while you are doing nothing that you are aware of.
I might also open command prompt and type 'NETSTAT -B' for a read out of whats open and where its connected.
You may want to run a spyware program such as spybot S&D just for kicks and see if there are any resource hogging programs robbing your internet connection in the background.
One simple way to get an idea of what is using the connection is to (if in xp) open the task manager and see if the network traffic is idle or in use while you are doing nothing that you are aware of.
I might also open command prompt and type 'NETSTAT -B' for a read out of whats open and where its connected.
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6,538 posts? what do you do in your spare time?
its unfortunate that you and others who provide assistance are not compensated by the manufactures for providing support for their products.
I am not aware of the radio frequency’s used, apparently the details of the connection are a proprietary secrete. wind/rain/time of day did not seem to be related to the problem. the connection continued to degrade until I could no longer get access, then the wireless broadband co. arrived with a signal amplifier and I was back on line.
its unfortunate that you and others who provide assistance are not compensated by the manufactures for providing support for their products.
I am not aware of the radio frequency’s used, apparently the details of the connection are a proprietary secrete. wind/rain/time of day did not seem to be related to the problem. the connection continued to degrade until I could no longer get access, then the wireless broadband co. arrived with a signal amplifier and I was back on line.