[Dxspider-support] Linksys Routers - a new bag of tricks

[Marty Durham]

I'm sure most of you are familiar with this utility...but if your not, check
out NetStumbler www.netstumbler.com .  It's a free download and it's pretty
useful for identifying other WAP's in the area along with channel, SSID, and
encryption information...

Marty
W1MD

-----Original Message-----
From: David Spoelstra [mailto:davids at mediamachine.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:23 PM
To: The DXSpider Support list; mdurham at mchsi.com
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Linksys Routers - a new bag of tricks

> Pretty quickly I determined that the problems seemed to be with the PCI
> adapters in the Win2k PCs.  The laptop had excellent and consistent
> (>2.5Mbit/sec) download performance whether in the wired or wireless
> mode.  Unfortunately, the use of a 3rd PCI adapter card provided equally
> as poor and inconsistent throughput performance.  So, back to square
> one.

Did you upgrade the firmware in the PCI cards?  Lots of people forget that 
they have firmware upgrades too.  I'd also use the software/drivers that 
were made specifically for the PCI cards rather than the generic drivers 
that Windows loads.  Remember to get the latest firmware and drivers off the

PCI manufacturer's websites.  I've fixed many problems for people by 
upgrading the firmware in their PCI card.

-David, N9KT