My experiences in getting wireless access for my laptop have been plagued with problems. The following scenarios have all failed me:
- Some really old Linksys, which not only would get slower if it was in use for a day or so, but finally just stopped working altogether.
- A D-Link Dl-514. This one will consistently stop announcing itself after a day or two. I have to restart it in order for it to resume announcing itself.
- The AirPort card in my Mac Mini, with Internet sharing enabled. Randomly, it just stops working, and I have to disable and re-enable it on the Mac Mini.
The only time, it seems, that I’ve been able to get reliable wireless Internet access is by using someone else’s unprotected wifi (by a happy coincidence, both near my apartment in Santa Cruz and near my parent’s house in Fremont, someone is running an unprotected Linksys wifi router hooked up to their cable modem).
Is this experience common?
(Also, Firefox 2 is grating on my nerves. All I am doing is typing this into a text area, and every couple of minutes it pegs one of the CPU cores, and my typing gets really slow. Is this Firefox’s way of simulating a slow telnet link? How retro!)
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davee | 10-Dec-06 at 5:07 pm | Permalink
my linksys routers have been flaky too. I just switched my office to a middle-of-the-road netgear wireless router and so far it’s been doing well. will know in a week or so if it’s more reliable. i had to restart the linksys probably once a week.