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Cisco EPC2425 from ntl keeps dropping wireless

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  • 10-01-2011 11:52pm
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    in the past week or two our ntl modem/router thing has started acting up in a big way. every 20-30 minutes it just stalls for anywhere between 10-70/80 seconds. the internet doesn't disconnect, because I when it resumes I get a sudden flood of data from my irc window. it used to do this rarely enough but recently, especially the last day or two it has becoming more and more frequent. just a couple of minutes ago i was playing a game fine and all of a sudden the lag just spiked incredibly, until eventually it dropped me altogether.. i can't even connect wirelessly to the router while all this is going on.


    does this sound familiar to anyone? has our modem just all of a sudden decided to crap out, ordoes anyone have any idea what might be going on? it's happening to all 3 computers in the house so im pretty sure it's not a hardware issue on our end


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    Spear
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    does this sound familiar to anyone? has our modem just all of a sudden decided to crap out, ordoes anyone have any idea what might be going on? it's happening to all 3 computers in the house so im pretty sure it's not a hardware issue on our end

    Could be interference on the same Wifi channel. If you have the software (Kismet, InSSIder, Netsstumbler) you could check around and see who else is on the same channel, and change accordingly.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    aye, i changed the chanel after I made that post.. no issues so far, fingers crossed anyway


    if it starts happening again ill get some of those programs, thanks


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    i thought the channels had helped, but it dropped again a minute ago :?

    netstumber says my device is unsupported too :/
    might just ring ntl in the morning


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    bhickey
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    i thought the channels had helped, but it dropped again a minute ago :?

    netstumber says my device is unsupported too :/
    might just ring ntl in the morning

    They're not great wireless routers but it'd still help if you could run Netstumbler or inSSIDer on any machine (make sure you select the wireless card when scanning) to get an idea if wireless interference might be a contributing factor.


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