Maybe someone here can give me some advice or had this problem and knows how to fix it.
I have a westell wireless DSL router from verizon. My desktop is connected directly to it. I have a notebook computer with a Belkin
802.11b PCMCIA wireless card (F506020 ver 2).The drivers seems to work fine. I had WEP setup and MAC filtering. The laptop kept loosing the connection every few seconds so I just turned off all the wireless security on the router and set it up as an open network just to see if that was the problem. Still no better. Every few seconds it says "a network cable has been unplugged" and then it reconnects for a few seconds. Even if the laptop is sitting right next to the router it does this. There is nothing close to either of them that would cause interference (phones, microwave, monitors, tv, etc) and they are very close together, in the same room. The signal meter is always going crazy from high to low really fast. I tried reinstalling the drivers and taking the card out and putting it back in but still no luck. Any ideas on what is causing this? Maybe does belkin have issues with Westell? My router is 802.11g. Do the notebook cards with an antenna that stick up work better than the ones without ?
My laptop is an HP Pavillion if that helps and I'm running XP home on the laptop.
Thanks for any help or tips or anything. its greatly appriciated!!
Michael