J English Smith
Well-known member
For those who are online with PB 1400s via a Lucent Silver or Gold card, a question...
My home connectivity is fine. Work connection, using the guest wi-fi in our organization, is very odd. I can get an initial connection but then it drops with only a minute or two of inactivity. The signal strength bar is only about 1/3 in the Orinoco control panel; it is about 2/3 at home for our wi-fi there. I can force a reconnection by going into the Orinoco control panel again and reconnecting to the "work" network but again, it will only connect for a short while.
I can't tell if the signal strength is the problem or if the problem is that IE5 is just "choking" on the bandwidth for the site I normally access (BBC's low bandwidth site - they recently addred more graphics in, grrrrrr).
Has anyone else experienced frequent connection drops if the signal strength bar is at 1/3rd or lower? I'm just puzzling over what is really causing this, and whether there's a workaround.
J
My home connectivity is fine. Work connection, using the guest wi-fi in our organization, is very odd. I can get an initial connection but then it drops with only a minute or two of inactivity. The signal strength bar is only about 1/3 in the Orinoco control panel; it is about 2/3 at home for our wi-fi there. I can force a reconnection by going into the Orinoco control panel again and reconnecting to the "work" network but again, it will only connect for a short while.
I can't tell if the signal strength is the problem or if the problem is that IE5 is just "choking" on the bandwidth for the site I normally access (BBC's low bandwidth site - they recently addred more graphics in, grrrrrr).
Has anyone else experienced frequent connection drops if the signal strength bar is at 1/3rd or lower? I'm just puzzling over what is really causing this, and whether there's a workaround.
J