Roy Tang

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May 2011

• We have a wifi router set up at home connected to our DSL router. And a lot of computers using it…there’s a desktop (connected to the router via a wired connection), 6 laptops, an ipad and a few internet-capable cellphones (yeah, there are a lot of us at home)

  Sometimes our internet will “act up”, meaning some of the wireless devices will register as being connected to the access point but unable to access any sites. In such a case the other devices seem to be access the internet just fine.

  I’m wondering if there’s some sort of limit or anything to the number of wireless devices we should be allowing to access the router that causes this problem? What things do I need to check?

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 21 May 2011 4:10am #wireless-networking #questions #superuser #tech life
  Also on: stackexchange / 4

Sep 2009

• Here’s our home setup: we have a wireless router, connected are 2 desktop PCs (let’s call them A and B), plus we also have a laptop that connects to the router via wi-fi. Desktops A and B are connected via LAN wires.

  Given that, the problem is that every time desktop A starts up or shuts down (it seems to be simply on power up or power down, the OS it’s booting into doesn’t matter), the wireless connection is reset, i.e. the laptop literally loses the connection and has to reconnect. No such problem happens when restarting desktop B. It’s a bit of a pain when I’m playing online games or something over the laptop and desktop A reboots.

  I’m not sure what to check for here…would it be a problem with the router, with the way the network is set up, or something else?

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 5 Sep 2009 2:31pm #wireless-networking #questions #superuser #tech life
  Also on: stackexchange / 6