problems with wireless

[vadalus]

Hi,

Well i'll never those 5 hours back. I have bought a new 7800N router. First impressions not good. Very very slow web interface which takes minutes to warm up after a restart and is reasonably ambiguous when it comes to "saving" vs "applying" and then "restarting", anyway i can live with that. However, i ran into some serious problems with the wireless connectivity. I would seem that as soon as I connect the phone line for DSL connectivity, the wireless SSID vanishes from all laptop i own and cannot be recovered without completely resetting the router. I have tried connecting to the router via a wired line and it thinks the wireless is activated and should be working. Am i missing something here? Is there a "tweak" to get this working... ? I would think it's a faulty unit, but the darn thing works when is completely reset so i am stumped. I have looked in the syslogs, nothing of note there. I am pretty proficient in these matters so feel i've run into a bug, or a (strangely) faulty unit.

Oh also, the hard reset does not seem to work every time either, is there a "harder" reset that can be used to blast everything?

Thanks

[philos]

This sounds similar to some of the problems I was having (see recent "wireless issues") post. Changing the channel to 7 has (so far) seemed to fix it.

[vadalus]

Hi,

Thanks good to know. I have RMA'd it. I might get another one, we'll see. Dont really have a lot of confidence in products where you have to do things like that, and i dont really have time to go through all the options to try and get it working when it should really be OK out of the box. If this is indeed a faulty wireless unit it should all be OK going forward.

Fingers crossed