Re: Wireless Clients losing connections

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You might try using a Wi-Fi locator in the building and narrowing down the
issue just in case it is another wireless router.

Another option is to get a laptop with a wireless card then installing
Ethereal (http://www.ethereal.com/) to see the traffic currently going on
the network at the time of the drops occuring.

Also check for outside the business location or if there are cordless phones
at the work site that might be interferring w/ the signals.

-- M


"Arthur" <mynewsgroupaccount@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks that confirms my suspicion.
I have tried other channels but that seemed to make no difference.
What I need to do is show the client that the problem is not being caused
by
the Small Business Server. With their lack of technical expertise they are
convinced that the server is the problem. Without taking the server to
another building(which is not an option) I don't know how to prove to them
that the problem is wireless and not network related.

"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I'd bet money it's cordless phones or access points - some other 2.4 ghz
device. First thing to try is changing the channel on the wireless
access
point.

I just went through a big ordeal like this trying to support the WAP
from
a user's house. It took me a while to realize that when the equipment
was
in the office it worked great. I had him take the cordless phones out
of
the room, and it started working at home too. He's in the process of
figuring out what channel doesn't compete with the cordless phone.

I just had a conversation with a Dell wireless support rep. She said
that
wireless devices almost never work intermittently. If the device
sometimes works normally, it's almost surely an external factor that's
causing the problem.


"Arthur" <mynewsgroupaccount@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a wireless access point attached to a Small Business Server
network. It has a reserved IP address assigned by the DHCP server for
it's
own network interface. It is configured for WPA-PSK security. Clients
connect to it OK and obtain an IP address from the DHCP pool on the
SBS2003 but then lose the connection almost immediately afterwards but
then reconnect and so on.

I have attached the same access point to another SBS network using the
same configuration and it works fine - no drop outs. I have also
attached
another WAP that exhibits the same behaviour on this particular network
but not on another.

I am therefore thinking that the problem lies with the wireless
environment and possibly interference but it had been working fine.

I cannot think what else I can look at on the SBS2003 server to check
if
it is that server causing the issue, afterall there is very little to
configure is there? It is just getting the IP number from the same DHCP
server that is serving the wired clients with no problem.

The wireless laptops connect to other WAPs with no problem.

Anyone with any similar experience or ideas?







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