Sounds nuts but i'd see if they would check your cable coming down off the
antenna. How far do you think that run is from your clost to the antenna?
Reason I ask, is that 2.4 has a sizable loss in most coaxial cables. You
can run a short cable ok but over a few meters and your power drops to
half. I'm sure the installer used the right stuff, but I'd look there
first. Does the cable have a # on it? Do you know if it is a heliax or
coaxial? Provided the router gets a nice strong signal from the antenna,
then i'd look at the router. I'll re read your post and analyze
further...this is the stuff i do all day anyway.
Charlie
> Any of youse guys know of a network speed monitor available as freeware or
> shareware that measures network speeds and upload/download speeds in real
> time. like a gas gauge?
>
>
>
> I've been chasing a problem with speeds and connection here at the Dream
> Farm for months. Here's some of the info involved.
>
>
>
> We live in the boonies. No cable, no DSL out here. We have a significant
> tower at the house. At the top is a radio receiver, pointed to another
> tower
> in line of sight 12.5 miles away. This is a radio wireless wi-fi broadband
> signal.. not a satellite signal. The wire from the radio comes into the
> house on the second floor, on the north wall, facing the shop, into what
> has
> been transformed into a "data closet". The Linksys wireless router is
> there.
> I have one of the antenna leads connected to a directional flat wall
> antennae on the outside wall that points straight to the shop. The shop
> is
> 160' feet away, a metal, well insulated pole building. My wireless signal
> out there was great with the side door open, but as Wisconsin winter
> approaches, I added a Linksys range extender in between the house and the
> shop.
>
>
>
> Wireless. my connection speed varies from minute to minute. from 54 mbps
> down to 1 mbps. My connection strength varies from excellent down to poor,
> even down to no connectivity.
>
>
>
> This takes place even when any other computer on the network, and any VOIP
> phones are disconnected from the router. My radio/wi fi ISP provider
> thought
> the fairly regular drops in connection speed (this happens just
> momentarily,
> for a few seconds, between 10 and 30 second intervals) could be as a
> result
> of a virus or a Trojan horse. Since the problem happens with even just my
> brand new laptop (with AVG virus 7.0, Microsoft antiSpyWare, SpyBot, and
> Trojan horse scans completed) only, I doubt it's some mysterious nefarious
> program choking my network in the background. Just in case, I uninstalled
> the majority of the intrusive HP software version checking processes that
> come loaded these days.
>
>
>
> The problem is so bad, that I ended up running a wired connection out to
> the
> shop, which entailed sistering it with the heavy phone line that runs to a
> utility pole then to the shop. It was a particular joy to be standing (in
> the rain), on the top of an 8' step ladder, placed in the back of my pick
> up
> truck, about 1' from the power lines, at the edge of my reach as I taped
> the
> Ethernet cable to the phone line, and into the shop. I now have a wired
> connection in the shop.
>
>
>
> The wireless issue, however, shows up even in the house, sitting 12' away
> from the router.
>
>
>
> I'd like to isolate this as a "wireless only" issue, or find out if the
> wired network is choking simultaneous to the wireless. Know of any utility
> that might help? Know what might be choking the wireless signal? FYI, it
> happens even at 5 AM, when no cordless phones (they're 5.8ghtz), no
> microwaves are on. Closest neighbors are a significant distance out here
> in
> dairyland country. I'm baffled.
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