Arch box appears to knock out wifi

syntaxvorlon · 2012-07-13 16:48:57

I have encountered an interesting problem with my home network. My arch box has been out for a while and during that time I and all others in my apartment have had no issues with wireless connectivity. Recently however, I was able to get my desktop running again and now the standalone wireless router/dsl modem is dropping all of the wireless users. My arch desktop is connected via an ethernet cord and does not experience a loss of connection. But my iPod, netbook(running Windows 7) and my GF's netbook (running Mint) all lose their connection to the router and their ability to reconnect. The router is still broadcasting and appears on lists but no connection seems to be possible to it.

Before my arch box went down a few months back, this issue had been popping up but I had forgotten about it until I got it working again.

Fixing the matter so far has been either physically switching the router on and off or going into the router's software by browser and shutting the wireless radio on and off.

I have yet to figure out what might be causing this and I have found no instances of this in my googling. Any thoughts?

progandy · 2012-07-13 16:58:31

This could also be a problem with your router. You say your archbox is connected with a cable. What happens to the wireless connection if you put any other client on the ethernet instead of your arch?

Last edited by progandy (2012-07-13 16:59:29)

syntaxvorlon · 2012-07-13 17:10:27

I'll try that for a while and see what happens.

Inxsible · 2012-07-13 17:19:03

make sure there isn't any ip address conflicts in your network as well.

ewaller · 2012-07-14 00:27:17

Make sure you Arch Box is not trying to become the definitive DHCP server on the network. In other words, ensure the dhcp server is not running.
Is your wireless set to the correct regulatory environment? (I cheated and used my moderator privilege -- I see where you are, so this is probably not the issue)
You have not "Optimized" your power output or anything, have you?

Edit: What is your router? I had similar issues, re-flashing my Netgear default crippleware firmware with DD-WRT made things work like magic.

Last edited by ewaller (2012-07-14 00:29:59)

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Arch box appears to knock out wifi

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