I have two wireless access points, one upstairs and one down (the signal was too weak for just one access point). My problem is the signal drops for no apparent reason (I am sure there is a reason, i just dont know what it is!). This happens at random times and not for all PCs. One PC could loose the connection whilst another PC (less than a metre away) will stay connected. The PC will connect to the access point downstairs with a very weak signal then disconnect a few minutes later to reconnect to the upstairs access point at full strength. During this time the telnet application our company uses has disconnected the user from the system, then I get it in the ear! I have tried 3 different access points and the all do they same thing. The PCs are all within close range and have at least 50% signal strength but even ones with 100% signal strength get disconnected. Is there anything that could cause this? Mobile Phones, factory machinery, the other Access Point (on a different channel), etc. If anyone could offer any help I would appreciate it. We are using D-Link DWL-6000AP Wireless Access Points, with D-Link DWL-AB520 and DWL-AG650 Wireless Access cards. PCs are Win98 and WinXP, in a small office.

1 - Make sure each AP has a unique channel! 2 - Make sure each AP has a unique SSID! You'll have all sorts of problems trying to run both APs with the same SSID and channel. Set AP1 to channel "1" and AP2 to channel "6".

both AP are on different channels with different SSID. I have 4 SSIDs, two for each AP for frequency 11a and 11b. All different names and channels. I thought with wireless you could walk around a building with a laptop connecting to different APs as I move around staying constantly connected, not disconnecting from one, then connecting to another. I am thinking about ripping the whole thing out and wireing the whole thing up as the bosses are kicking up a fuss! I dont want to because it great when it works, but i need to keep users happy ;o) Thanks for the reply Wizzard

I'm getting very similar problem setting up an ad-hoc connection at home between my Win 2K Pro SP3 system and laptops. I am using a D-Link 510 card in the 'server' and D-link DWL 610 card in the laptop - running Win Me. Transfers initiated from the laptop (including printing) just crash out at indeterminate times. Meanwhile I can instigate a large file transfer from the 'server' to the laptop and have no problems. I can get this situation concurrently - that is have good file transfer started from the server and then fail to get any connection from the laptop to the server. Most infuriating! Any ideas or is that the d-link stuff isn't really up to it?

I am experiencing dropouts also on my home system I have 3 machines all running xp and a wireless microsoft mn-700 base...2 machines are cat5 and laptop on wireless ..the laptop drops out intermittently and then displays that there is a connection available. I can log right back on but I cant stay on more than 10 min??? I have all power saving features disabled on laptop, anyone have any answers on this ??

If you want to be able to switch from one AP to another AP without dropping and reconnecting, you have to have all of your AP's SSID's the same, and have them all on the same channel. You have to set up one AP as a root, and set the others as non-root repeaters. You can only make it where you switch from one AP to the other without dropping if you have the repeater cababilities.