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    Sitecom Wireless-N Gaming Router issue

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Eambo, Jun 28, 2009.

  1. Eambo

    Eambo Notebook Evangelist

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    I would try and get in touch with Sitecom about this issue, but their site is down at the minute (professional!)

    I have purchased a wireless-n gaming network off ebay. It cost me close to £150, it's state of the art as far as I can see. However I'm having issues with it randomly dropping connection.

    Basically, while I'm doing whatever (playing games, surfing etc.) it will occasionally stop working. After a few seconds it'll either kick back in, or Windows will give me a yellow ! by my network, letting me know it's local only. I can still ping and access the router, but can't ping or browse WAN.

    *Most* of the time, if I disconnect and reconnect to the wireless network, it'll kick it back in to working. Sometimes it'll say "Windows cannot connect" and I'll have to go down and reset the router.

    I'm on a 20MB Fibre Optic connection from Virgin Media, connecting their modem to my router.

    I'm 99.9% it's not the modem disconnecting, because I have never had to reset the modem to fix this issue - only the router.

    I'm tempted to say it seems to be a wireless-N issue. My mom is on a wireless-G connection, and when I disconnect she says hers still works. However this morning it happened and her connection was down too.

    Sitecom's site (when I checked last week) said that it may be an issue with using WPA with wireless-N - Apparently it only works with WPA2. However when I checked I'm using WPA2 already, so that doesn't seem to be an issue.

    Also as you can guess, wireless-n, it's definitely not a signal issue. It's 5 bars in windows, 90-100% signal usually.

    Although it's not a MASSIVE issue it gets annoying to randomly get disconnected while gaming, especially since it's a very expensive router. Can any networking guru's around here shed any light on why this might be happening?

    (PS: Sorry for the long post, I thought details might help. Kudos and thanks to anyone who takes the time to even attempt to help =-))
     
    Eambo, Jun 28, 2009
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  2. scotty0100

    scotty0100 Newbie

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    Did you find the solution for this as I'm having the same issues?
     
    scotty0100, Aug 27, 2009
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