On Apr 22, 10:39*am, alexd <troffa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> DManzaluni wrote:
> > The only thing I can think of is that somehow the card has lost all
> > sensitivity over time.
>
> I reckon it's more likely that you now have more wireless network trafficin
> your vicinity than you had before, therefore the signal to noise ratio is
> getting worse, leading to poorer reliability. Although you'd have to be
> very unlucky for 15 feet not to be close enough to counteract this.
>
> > Actually I have two or three of these cards and none of them seem to work
> > properly. *
>
> Did they work in the past?
>
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> *15:34:44 up 138 days, 16:45, *3 users, *load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.01
> *My god, said I, with my one liquid eye, am I dreaming, or am I insane?

No my point is that these cards never seem to have worked well in any
computer, whether with the 'adapter' or by itself and the traffic (on
all channels, they wont work on any channels they scan) is about
what it has always been. I couldnt believe that Linksys could have
put them out on to the market with sensitivity this bad: They didnt
start reducing the quality of (components and memory in) their WRT54G
routers until some years later, , so I wondered whether sensitivity
had dropped off in some way. I dont suppose there is any way of
measuring this.

Especially when they wont even pick up a DD-WRT router 15 feet away!

But there is definite evidence for what you say irrespective of an
prolbem with either this linksys card or its utility: In the evenings
where I live, the networks do slow noticeably or stop completely. It
happens every evening and seems to happen on all networks (we have
TimeWarner, RCN and apparently FioS here so I dont know which local
networks use which carrier but I HAVE noticed that ALL networks seem
to suffer from degradation of signal/speed EVERY evening)