Hi pluggers,<br><p>Our house is primarily *nix based. We have one PC (a netbook!) which
has Windows XP installed, 1 Ubuntu PC, 1 CentOS PC and a Macbook.</p>
<p>Both the Ubuntu & CentOS PC's have constant dropouts with wireless. The Mac and Windows box are perfectly fine.<br>Ubuntu PC has an rt73usb (Linksys 54G USB adapter) and the CentOS
machine is an IBM T40 laptop with built in ipw2100 (Intel wireless).</p>
<p>It only seems to happen when you are just that 'little bit' further
away from the router. The Ubuntu PC is in the room next door to the
router, yet the laptop is normally used up the other end of the house.</p>
<p>The Ubuntu PC is somewhat more reliable than the laptop, however it
still requires a reboot about once a day. Once the connection drops
out, it just refuses to re-establish it without a reboot. Restarting
NetworkManager or any other networking services has no effect.<br></p>
<p>The laptop on the other hand will work perfect if I am sitting right
next to the router, yet as soon as I move into a different room it is
as flaky as all hell.</p>
<p>The netbook (Acer Aspire One) with WinXP and the Macbook work out on
the street verge, so it can hardly be directly blamed on a poor signal from
the router. Even my smartphone can get 2 out of 5 bars from the Wi-fi standing outside, and it can hold the connection stable for ages.<br></p>
<p>It just seems to me that Linux is being extremely fussy in one way
or another and is really poor when it comes to holding up the signal.</p><p>I tried my mate's D-Link 604GT (I think that is what it was) and the
wireless signal was quite poor on that, even with the Windows PC, but
it did not seem to drop out as much on the linux machines.</p>
<p>Is my only option to give up and go out and purchase a new router?
I've had a good innings with this Billion 7402VGO, I purchased it as
soon as they came out, which I think was about 2004 or 2005 and it's
always just 'worked'.<br>I have tried using WEP, WPA, No security etc. It seems to make no difference. I currently have WPA/TKIP set up. <br></p><p>This is something that has been annoying the heck out of me for ages and I would love to be able to get to the bottom of it!<br>
<br>Any input would be greatly appreciated. Cheers :)<br>Blake<br></p>