Wireless dropouts

Newbie here so bear with me...bought a linksys wireless network kit which consisted of a router and laptop wireless card. Installed everything at another location and everything worked great. Brought the router home and now constantly lose connection and am only 10 feet away from the router. I've tried channels 1, 6 and 11 as suggested by Linksys but still no go. I'll boot up the laptop, connects fine...then a minute later it just disconnects. We do have a ADT wireless alarm in the house...could this be interfering? Any ideas as to what else I can try (or buy a different product) to get this thing working consistantly?

It does sound like interference in your area. I doubt it is your wireless alarm system as most alarm panels do not operate above the 900MHz freq. Try downloading netstumbler

and post what your Signal/Noise Ratio (SNR) is. I originally had the same problem you are stating and ended up having to relocate my AP. works fine now. just a thot, hope this helps.

Why not turn off the alarm and see if that helps?

Other possibilities include cordless phones, tv senders.

When it disconnects does it reconnect automatically in a few seconds then disconnect again? Or do you manually have to connect?

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Like Chris said, these things play a big part too. I have two 2.4 gig cordless phones, I can be on both of them at the same time and it causes noise in my wireless network but does not hugely effect it, however, my 2.4 gig X-10 TV sender knocks it out completely no matter where I place my AP nor which channel the sender/AP is on and our microwave oven causes random disconnects like you mentioned when its in operation. perhaps one of your neighbors utilizes one or more of these devices that could be causing your problem.

You could try a much better program (free for 30 days to evaluate) Winc by cirond corp

much better program, and works with windows, and whatever is actually INSTALLED, rather than only certain devices (like netstumbler).

The other Mike wrote:

It varies...sometimes it reconnects on it's own, sometimes I have to manually reconnect and then other times I have to reboot the laptop to even 'see' the router.