We have two computers connected to the internet through a wireless router.....
My computer is a desktop P4 system running XP, the other computer is a laptop also P4 running Vista. We are connected through the wireless router - Netgear DG834N
Basically this is the issue we dealing with....
When the channel on the router is set to the default "AUTO", both the desktop (mine) and the laptop (my wife's) finds the router just fine and connects just fine. Problem is, the connection constantly drops out.
So when I change the channel to a specific channel, the desktop computer connects just fine as before, and it seems to solve the drop-out problem - the connection does not drop out when connected via this specific channel.
HOWEVER..... when I change the channel, the laptop does not connect to the router. It finds the router and detects the network system, but it is saying there is no signal, therefore returns a error message saying it cannot connect to the router.
Since the only difference is that I change the channel from the default to the specific channel (everything else is the same, such as location, window settings, etc) then I figure there must be a setting somewhere that I have to tweak to get the laptop to recognise the signal from the router at that specific channel...... I just don't know how or what!!!!???
Thanks so much for any help/advice you could give here......
Gregga