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| Thread ID: 115296 | 2011-01-11 21:32:00 | Wired wireless problem | CaptainVincent (76) | Press F1 |
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| 1168957 | 2011-01-12 01:56:00 | It's not dropping out with sleep mode is it? If you want to use sleep mode, set the USB jumpers to 5VSB. I recently found my USB card reader gave problems using the front socket but was OK on a back one. Power issue there. Good luck. Solution was a good one. I instead used a 30cm cord rather 5 metres and just set it up in a spot I get 3/5 bars. It's 3mb/s and I can deal with that. Also don't have to use extra power. Thanks for your help and advice though everyone. |
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| 1168958 | 2011-01-12 04:57:00 | Yeah sounds like your USB cable is just too long and the USB controller on the new board isn't as tolerant as the old one. Alternatively you could get a USB WiFi adaptor with an external antenna jack and extend the antenna on the end of some coax instead of extending the USB cable itself. |
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| 1168959 | 2011-01-12 09:39:00 | My USB WIFI adapter is 7 metres from my PC. I'm using one of these: 5m USB active extension cable (www.elive.co.nz) + another normal 2m USB extension cable. I've also made a "wokfi" parabola booster (see here: http://www.usbwifi.orconhosting.net.nz/). In testing the wokfi booster improves the signal by around 7%. I get 90%+ signal strength consistently from the wifi hotspot router which is about 100m from me. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1168960 | 2011-01-12 09:51:00 | Are you leeching from McDonalds then? :lol: | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1168961 | 2011-01-12 10:13:00 | :p LOL ... no, I live in a caravan park and the hotspot is part of the amenities here. This is my ISP's site: http://www.internetaccesscompany.co.nz/ | Rod J (451) | ||
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