Im having the same issue lately with my ATT DSL. but i have a 2wire modem. Its not hot, and it pings fine. I think its the ISP.
My AT&T DSL used to do that all the time with a Westell modem and Linksys router. It always came back on its ow though.

Haven’t noticed it lately.
Might want to try a new router? My gf had a lot of problems with her DSL connection and I could not figure out what was wrong with it. I just bought her a new router and it fixed the problem.

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i got my express card reader for 15 bucks and it looks sweet

i also have another sd/express/micro sd reader for 25

no, you have it wrong. what he has is an express card for his cellular wireless. he doesn’t have an express card slot in his laptop. he wants a device that will plug into usb and utilize the expresscard.

i have good news about the cost. pcmcia to usb was ridiculously high, but expresscard to usb is not

no, that’s exactly what i was talking about numbnuts
you even posted a link to the exact same reader i have
Thanks, now I can use my cellular card with my Eee Pc
Those subnotebooks are going to be supporting HSDPA etc out-of-the-box now. It’s lovely.

Would (any) wireless technology (since there’s a lot up-and-coming it seems) be useful for a server? (just because in college on campus I will be locked out of getting my own internet connection otherwise)
What’s their pitfalls?

I know this is well off-topic, but as long as mpuck is sorted..

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A friend of mine told me my wireless connection and cordless phones might be sharing the same megahertz. Could that be the problem?

If so, how do i fix it?

2.4GHz cordless phone?

yep. they don’t have to be on the exact same frequency to cause interference, so it’s a pretty common occurrence.

the phone should have a "channel" button to change frequencies slightly, but I don’t know how long it remembers the currently selected channel, so..

log into router firmware, go to wireless settings. look for a "Channel" option and change it to a different value between 1 and 11. just change it to the opposite end of that range from what it currently is. ex; if it’s 3, change it to 8, 9 to 2, 4 to 10, etc

Yep, it’s a 2.4GHz phone.

My sister was over this weekend with her laptop, and she used my Internet while she was here. She never got knocked off, so I guess that is the problem.

Probably a very noob question…but how do I log onto my router firmware? I bring up my internet status menu, but I didn’t see a channel setting.

Is this the wrong menu:

should be it. the default user name and password should be "admin"
In the long run, it might be better to buy a 5.8GHz phone.

yeah that’s not it.

open your internet browser and go to 192.168.1.1
try a blank username and password of admin

then go back and do what I said before

I can’t seem to get the page to load…

Am I doing something wrong?

Make/Model of your router?

on that screen, go to Support and look up your IP.. whatever the IP is.. change the last number to a 1 and try that in the browser (or look for the Gateway IP and just try that)

It’s a 2WIRE through AT&T.

The Gateway IP seemed to do the trick.

I was on a channel 1, but I changed it to an 11, and I’m still getting knocked off when the phone rings.

I might just try each channel and see what happens. Here’s a list of the available channels…

You’ll be much better off (and totally free of worry) if you buy a 5.8ghz phone.

I will probably end up doing that. The phone sucks, anyway.

that may not fix his problem. 5.8ghz phones still use 2.4ghz for some stuff, and 2.4ghz is still overcrowded with microwave ovens, bluetooth, and 802.11b/g/n.

the phone doesn’t have a "[change] channel" button?

So…you’re suggesting getting rid of his router?

his wireless signal may not be the only one within range that’s conflicting.

and yeah, get a 5ghz wireless N

This is true. Are you in an area where your neighbor’s phones might be fucking your shit up? Keep trying all those channels, I guess.

If anything, you can try the 5.8ghz phone. If it doesn’t work, you can always return it. Buy from Best Buy or some other store -their return policy is really liberal

Yeah, but it doesn’t really seem to help.

I guess I will try a new phone, and go from there.

Thanks for the help guyz.

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Our first setup is:

Win XP
Netstumbler
Earthstumber (convert ns1 logs to google earth)
Google Earth
Proxim Ornico Gold b/g
3db omni ant
10db directional ant
Earthmate LT-20 GPS

Second setup is:

Redhat 9
Kismet
GPSD
some shitty scripts to convert/log kismet and make JPG’s of the drive
Proxim Ornico Gold b/g
3db omni ant
10db directional ant
Garmen Etrex Venture GPS

Kismet is obviously the best scanning tool out there, but crashes and is rubbish to work with and our scripts are crap. Not to mention GPSD is annoying and barely works. The windows setup works great but obviously has it’s shortcomings compared to the unix setup.

Any ideas?
What exactly is wardriving again? The practice of securing a wireless network, or something like that?

In my situation, like I explained, it is finding all known networks, ensuring they are compliant with security standards. Then locating any unknown/misconfigured networks and correcting/removing them.

it is driving around scanning for open wireless networks… exactly what he described in his original post.

And who are you that you have this authority?

I understand that now, but it seems such a breathtaking breach of privacy that I can’t imagine why they would do it, much less admit to it.

i’m not sure at all what the legitimacy is or why a business would be interested in doing it, unless he works for AT&T or a similar company who has to manage many WiFi hotspots and this is their simplest way of verifying everything.
In a company sense it is just like penetration testing, you have to test and (sometimes) attempt to break in to your own networks to find all the weaknesses you can, so you can harden it all up. What you can and can’t do all depend on your company and the directives that you’ve been given.

You can also wardrive around wherever you want just for fun (not in a company sense, in the more "whitehat" sense), and I believe it is legal as long as you are doing it passively and not attempting to break in to any networks. In this case you’d just be mapping out a wireless access point grid for your city/area/whatever.

As soon as you try and break in you are crossing the legality line.

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if this is true, that is fast enough for me.

what about reliability? will this work in a building well?

they charge $60 per month. anybody else know of better providers with a better product and possibly less $$ per month?

thanks OT.
my brother in law had it, he was getting roughly double the speed of dialup

maybe they have upgraded speeds since last year or he was in a crappy service area

I used it for a while when traveling around my area, Kansas and the general midwest region, it was horridly slow and unreliable. The best speeds I ever got were probably around 100k, most of the time and especially during the night it was much slower. The connection also frequently turned into a zombie and I would have to reconnect, sometimes taking a minute or two to authenticate and get back on. The only reason I had it is a friend worked at a local Verizon store and got me a hookup, I decided to pay full price for AT&T after just a dozen times using it while traveling.

Of course in this area Verizon has far less of a network than in their prime areas, it’s probably better in their better markets.
Yeah, I thinks omethin glike this would REALLY depend on Verizon’s service in the area. You *should* be able to do a 30 day trial or something, like you can with their phones. It might be a hassle cancelling it, but you can look into it.

yeah, they said that there is a 30 day trial but you know how that goes. I wanted to see what the reviews were for it before I even went that far. Ughh, I got to figure this thing out soon.

Thanks OT. I’ll do a little more research on it and let you know what I find.

what phone do you have? use pdanet if you have a treo/centro.

Get Wireless Internet on your laptop through the Treo or Centro phone – The PdaNet software allows your computer to go online by connecting to your phone through the Hotsync USB cable or Bluetooth. If you own a Treo or Centro phone with a data plan subscription from any carriers, PdaNet will make it your wireless Internet Connection for your laptop/desktop computer instantly – no extra hardware or setup necessary.

one time fee of like $34, or of course there are illegal ways of obtaining it.

thanks and good idea, but I don’t have any phone like that or data plans.

This is really going to be for a stationary desktop computer that I cannot find a provider for in the area. I’m not sure what to do except this. I made a thread about it a few weeks ago and now I was considering the wireless thing.

I’ve still got some debating to do.
My father has a Verizon wireless card and it’s pretty good. Obviously not quite cable speeds, but much faster than dialup.
sprint seems to have some pretty kickass speeds with their cards
Make sure your area is serviced by EVDO Rev A for the fastest speeds. Even then, it’s dependent on how good of a cellular signal you receive inside the house. Keep in mind that your cell phone may not be a good judge of cellular reception either. My Verizon USB card picked up a good 1-2 bars fewer (~10dB less) signal than my cell phone did in the same spot.
well….thanks for all of your responses. I actually viewed the USB internet thing active in the location I want to use it and it is fast enough (not cable, but much better than dial-up). A customer of mine came in and had one and I asked to hook it up. Thing worked pretty good and I am actually a little impressed with it.

Thanks for all of your input, I’m gonna stick with verizon since I already have an account set up with them.

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