Solutions for frequent drop-off of home wireless routers

A "Cuteroy" question: My home is a 54M home wireless router, previously only one machine has never seen the phenomenon, since the purchase of a notebook but often fell off the line, I have encountered a similar situation? What might be the problem? How to solve?

As a home user, the problem of Cuteroy is quite universal, home wireless router in normal use for a period of time, always inexplicable appearance of goods but dropped the situation. For this problem, we must take into account the principle of no line and the particularity of the family environment. So let's take a simple discussion on the problem of the home wireless router falling off the wire.

In response to Cuteroy problems, we first need to consider the receiver side of the problem, that is, notebook end. Whether it is a Centrino notebook or a notebook with a wireless card installed, the network link may be wrong due to the compatibility of the network card or the driver problem. First of all, we should confirm that the NIC itself has no quality defects, and then check the NIC driver is normal, or the driver version is too old. If the notebook is using a wireless network card and routing connection, in addition to wireless set, most of the different brands of wireless network card and routing are compatible, but also do not rule out a very small number of interoperability between products is not ideal.

In addition, the family environment is more casual, because the location of the home wireless router may be often changed, but because the wireless router is transmitted through the electromagnetic wave signal, we choose to place the location must take into account the environmental issues. As far as possible to make the route away from cordless phones, microwave ovens, in addition, even air-conditioning, washing machines, refrigerators, such as electrical appliances, to avoid electromagnetic interference or drop the situation occurs, this can also effectively avoid the home wireless router off the line.

Because of the particularity of the wireless network transmission signal, we have to consider the environment problem when we install or mesh. In the family, the equipment that can affect wireless network is mainly: cordless telephone, microwave oven, in addition, even air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators and other electrical appliances are also likely to generate electromagnetic interference. As far as possible to avoid electrical appliances at the same time, the author suggested that the router placed in the middle of the room, the reason for this is because the transmission range of wireless equipment is a sphere, in the middle of the room, you can let the range of signal coverage of the whole House, to achieve better transmission effect.

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In addition, the location of the antenna without the line is also noteworthy. At present, most of the wireless router antenna is omni-direction, it puts the angle will affect to a certain extent the signal good or bad, as to how the pendulum to achieve the best signal effect, to avoid the home wireless router off the line, but also need to adjust the user according to the actual environment.

Channel conflict. With the popularity of wireless products in the home, the choice of channels is one of the factors we have to consider, when there are multiple wireless devices using the same channel (such as neighbors), it is likely that the transmission is not ideal or even dropped. In the case of a channel conflict, you can choose one that works best for you in the router's configuration interface, based on all the wireless channels in the area. (It is best to avoid the top and bottom 2 bits of the occupied channel when selecting channels)

In addition, the IEEE802.11B/G standard supports only 3 non overlapping transmission channel channels, only channels 1, 6, 11, or 13 are not conflicting, but devices using channel 3 interfere with 1 and 6, and devices using Channel 9 interfere with 6 and 13 ... The solution to this type of home wireless router drop is to change the wireless router settings interface to an infrequently used wireless channel, using 1, 6, 11 different channels, to reduce the conflict.

Of course, for the habit of long time to open a no line by the user, frequent drop line may also be caused by the problem of the router cooling. At this point, we need to pay attention to the external radiator for the auxiliary cooling, and pay attention not to broadband devices, wireless routers, such as superimposed on the use, which will aggravate the heat burden of all types of equipment.

Because the environment of the home wireless network is relatively simple, so long as everybody proper maintenance our hardware product will not appear the home wireless router drop line this kind of situation.