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Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 8 Hi Folks, This is my first posting on this forum. I have been a user of WirelessMon for some time now. I'm currently getting a lot of WiFi signal dropouts but it's unlikely that this is being caused by other networks in the neighbourhood. Most of the other networks are on Ch 11, one is on Ch 1 and I'm on Ch 6. There is one network on Ch 7 but its signal strength is usually below -70dBm as shown on the WirelessMon graph. My current network card indicates typically -50dBm (graph) when connected to my router. So, there appears to be two options. The dropouts that I'm getting are not being caused by other networks but other sources of 2.4GHz. Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of proving this using something like Wi-Spy. The other option is that my received signal strength of -50dBm is too low to ensure a reliable wireless connection. Out of interest, what sort of figures do other users of WirelessMon see for received signal strength and may I ask what combination of router and network card you're using? I'm using a BT Voyager 2091 and Belkin F5D6001. All comments would be appreciated. JPC Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1723 -50dBm isn't a fantastic signal but really it depends on the sensitivity of the card, eg a netgear USB WG111 here a foot away from an access point (DLINK DIR-635) is reporting -45 dBm, where an Intel 2200BG is reporting -20dBm.A likely cause of other wireless interference would be cordless phones running on the 2.4GHz band, so if you have any of them around you could try turning them off and seeing if it improves your connection. Comment Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 8 Very interestingThanks, Tim Your point is well taken and makes a lot of sense. I wonder if anyone has ever published a list of network card sensitivities. It's amazing that the two cards you have quoted have sensitivities that differ by as much as 25dBm. I suppose I could

Times. This option takes aninteger number as its argument.The Cisco HDLCheader has a 1 byte "control" field. Apparentlythis should always be 0, but if you can use any 1 bytevalue.--hdlc-address=numberSpecify HDLC address. Thisoption may appear up to 1 times. This option takes aninteger number as its argument.The Cisco HDLCheader has a 1 byte "address" field which has twovalid values:0x0FUnicast0xBFBroadcast You can however specify any single byte value.--user-dlt=numberSet output file DLT type. Thisoption may appear up to 1 times. This option takes aninteger number as its argument.Set the DLTvalue of the output pcap file.--user-dlink=stringRewrite Data-Link layer withuser specified data. This option may appear up to 2times.Provide aseries of comma deliminated hex values which will be used torewrite or create the Layer 2 header of the packets. Thefirst instance of this argument will rewrite both server andclient traffic, but if this argument is specified a secondtime, it will be used for the client traffic.Example: --user-dlink=01,02,03,04,05,06,00,1A,2B,3C,4D,5E,6F,08,00-d number,--dbug=numberEnable debugging output. Thisoption may appear up to 1 times. This option takes aninteger number as its argument. The value of numberis constrained to being:in the range 0 through 5The default number forthis option is: 0If configuredwith --enable-debug, then you can specify a verbosity levelfor debugging output. Higher numbers increase verbosity.-i string,--infile=stringInput pcap file to beprocessed. This option may appear up to 1 times.-o string,--outfile=stringOutput pcap file. This optionmay appear up to 1 times.-c string,--cachefile=stringSplit traffic via tcpprep cachefile. This option may appear up to 1 times.Use tcpprepcache file to split traffic based upon client/serverrelationships.-v, --verbosePrint decoded

TX packets into the WAN statistics when it comes back on-line. Again, from this thread I do not use wireless so we're talking wired WAN only here not WLAN. And yes for the typical noob advice people post I have tried several patch cables between the modem and router. Only happens on reboot, number varies from 6-11 WAN TX packets dropped just on re-startup. Never see anything but zeros on LAN statistics for packet issues as it should be. But WAN stats should also be zeroes, particularly right after a reboot when nothing is going on yet.I'm going to stick it out a bit longer and see if D-Link comes thru with an Amplifi line firmware update this Summer. The DIR-825 you suggest is also Ubicom based, IP5170U, but I would not consider another Dlink product if I found my DIR-827 purchase turned out to be for an firmware orphan. There is a competitor offering out there with the Ubicom IP8260U and no QoS crippling I would turn to. Logged Live for today.... Logged Cable: 1Gb/50Mb>NetGear CM1200>DIR-882>HP 24pt Gb Switch. COVR-1202/2202/3902,DIR-2660/80,3xDGL-4500s,DIR-LX1870,857,835,827,815,890L,880L,868L,836L,810L,685,657,3x655s,645,628,601,DNR-202L,DNS-345,DCS-933L,936L,960L and 8000LH. No work arounds, will take a firmware update to address all of these issues. I did have the opportunity to borrow someones DGL-4300 1.9 and it behaved the same as my DGL-4100 1.7 with respect to these issues. That's two different Dlink routers that did not exhibit the problems that the DIR-827 does. TWC SMTP email settings worked/sent logs on both DGLs QoS/GameFuel measured/reported speed at the

2mbps WAN uplink on both DGLsNo restart initial WAN packet peeing on either DGLNo problems finding and printing to the HP PhotoSmart c7280 printer on either DGL I'm done, no point in further time investment without updated firmware. Logged Live for today.... Have you contacted DLink support yet? Say level 2? Logged Cable: 1Gb/50Mb>NetGear CM1200>DIR-882>HP 24pt Gb Switch. COVR-1202/2202/3902,DIR-2660/80,3xDGL-4500s,DIR-LX1870,857,835,827,815,890L,880L,868L,836L,810L,685,657,3x655s,645,628,601,DNR-202L,DNS-345,DCS-933L,936L,960L and 8000LH. I did break up all the detailed test results and data into two emails to the Dlink support contact us site with my contact information and all. Have gotten no response to either yet.And I will phone it in too when I get a window where I can sit on hold and deal with noob L1s asking me to reset the router and such. Logged Live for today.... Keep us posted. Definitely need Level 2 or higher. Logged Cable: 1Gb/50Mb>NetGear CM1200>DIR-882>HP 24pt Gb Switch. COVR-1202/2202/3902,DIR-2660/80,3xDGL-4500s,DIR-LX1870,857,835,827,815,890L,880L,868L,836L,810L,685,657,3x655s,645,628,601,DNR-202L,DNS-345,DCS-933L,936L,960L and 8000LH. Any status on this? Logged Cable: 1Gb/50Mb>NetGear CM1200>DIR-882>HP 24pt Gb Switch. COVR-1202/2202/3902,DIR-2660/80,3xDGL-4500s,DIR-LX1870,857,835,827,815,890L,880L,868L,836L,810L,685,657,3x655s,645,628,601,DNR-202L,DNS-345,DCS-933L,936L,960L and 8000LH. Logged Cable: 1Gb/50Mb>NetGear CM1200>DIR-882>HP 24pt Gb Switch. COVR-1202/2202/3902,DIR-2660/80,3xDGL-4500s,DIR-LX1870,857,835,827,815,890L,880L,868L,836L,810L,685,657,3x655s,645,628,601,DNR-202L,DNS-345,DCS-933L,936L,960L and 8000LH.