signal problems...

[roofy]

my signal keeps spiking from 0 to 100...up and down...could this be intereference?

[jatkins679]

How about more information about your wireless environment. What kind of area? Indoor, outdoor? Concrete walls or wood and drywall? How many square feet coverage by each AP? 802.a, 802.b? How many devices connect to your AP? What kinds of other electronic devices that emit EMR are in the area?

[roofy]

we are in a concrete school, usuing 802.11b protocol, and dell true mobile access points with dell lattitude integrated wlan cards...for testing purposes the laptop and the access point are in the same room and cant connect...netstumbler on the laptop just shows signal spikes...we have no wep or mac filtering on the wap..the laptop and wap are both under static addressing.

we have motorola walkie talkies all aroud the school.....what other stuff would constitute to emr?

[jatkins679]

What exactly do you mean 'can't connect'? No connectivity between AP and latop at all? Can you ping the AP or any other point from your laptop? Can you reach the Internet or any other device on your network at all?

[roofy]

update

we fixed it...it seemed to be that we had a faulty ap

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