I’ve had a wireless network in the house for years now. Everything’s worked fine up until Friday.
On Friday, all of a sudden I couldn’t connect to our wireless router. Nothing has changed - no new devices, no new drivers, nothing. Just something that worked now doesn’t.
I moved the router around, and could get it so that I could connect, but Mr. Athena couldn’t. Our offices are on opposite sides of the house. I couldn’t find a place to put it that allowed us both to get decent reception.
So I figure the router has gone bad, even though it’s not even a year old. So I go buy a new one - a Linksys this time, as I’ve heard good reviews on them since Cisco bought them. Our old router was a DLink.
Now everything in the house connects. Mr. Athena’s connection is great. However, two of the computers in my office get between 1Mb/s and 1.5 Mb/s. The laptop got close to 5 Mb/s for a while, now it’s back down to 1Mb/s. This is in the same room as the router.
I put the laptop RIGHT next to the router, and it gets 1Mb/s. If I connect it directly, using a wire, it gets 5Mb/s. Mr. Athena’s computer, faaaaaaaaaaaaaar away from the router, gets between 4.5 and 5.0 Mb/s connection.
I’m paying for 5Mb/s (out the nose, I might add). WTF is going on? Everything worked great until Friday. We even tried buying a new USB dongle to see if that helped, and get the same thing with the new one.
Oh, here’s something new: as I sit here, typing this, I lost connection. The USB dongle is literally 1" away from the dongle for my other computer, which did not lose connection. Are there network ghosts in my house?