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    Vat Do You Dink I Shoud Do?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by m4rc, Jan 7, 2007.

  1. m4rc

    m4rc Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello,

    I have a dell with a Intel wireless card.
    my router is no more then 10 feet from my laptop.
    there are other signals around me which i can use fairly well.
    About every 2 hours or so, my card just stops doing its job,
    meaning it detects nothing at all untilli restart.

    plz help.
     
    m4rc, Jan 7, 2007
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  2. Mark

    Mark Desktop Debugger

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    Are you saying that you loose your signal from your router every two hours but you can still get onto other networks? This particular situation happens to me a lot, but it has a lot to do with our internet provider and the fact that they won't bury our cable outside and it is under a foot of snow.
     
    Mark, Jan 7, 2007
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  3. blue68f100

    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Every 2 hrs indicates a timer is running. Check your lease time in your router, set to max.

    My ISP uses a 2 hr lease time, but my router takes care of that and I never see it.
     
    blue68f100, Jan 7, 2007
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