WRT54G Intermittent transmission/reception?

In very simplest terms:

I have a Linksys WRT54G up-and-running just fine on my XP PC. But, the two XP laptops I am trying to set up on a wireless network only intermittently "find" the network. I can "Refresh Network List" as many times as I like, but only occasionally will either laptop find the network and, by the time I've tried entering the appropriate network key, it would seem that the connection is lost again.

Any suggestions?

Ellis

Possible interference. See:

"Minimizing 802.11 Interference Issues" at .

"Stop the interference!"

Is the signal strength "Good" or better?

If not try

I have two wrt54g's by the way and they were really killing me. Sounds like interference to me also, I bought some new 5.5 dbi antennas and replaced the 3 dbi antennas it comes with now. I get access all the way down the street. Here is the antenna I am talking about.

Would those antennae go on the router end of things, or on the recipient's external USB antenna?

The router is owned by the Town Hall, but pushes a signal out for villagers' use. Sometimes the signal is quite low. The DLink external USB on the recipients' computer is on a 5 metre USB cable on a pole on the roof that can be rotated, encased on three sides and above within a small box (the open side facing the council's antenna, of course.

They will work at either. The recipient and the router. You can put one on both at the same time too.

In my situation I have it on the router only.