My WiFi card works when I boot up, but does not continue to work when I take the laptop while it is on and move to another room. There are several things you can do... first (just covering the bases so

On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:13, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: please dont be offended) understand that the wifi is a radio link... wireless is a radio transceiver. When you stand up and walk (with the laptop) into another room your body can interfere with the signal in unpredictable and significant ways... depending on your distance from the router, whether your body is between the router and your laptop, and the physical position of the router in your house. Ok. 1) Try to mount the router (wireless hub) at a place in your house that is mostly central to the main locations you will working from--- a central hallway between the two room you most frequent might work. 2) Check the antenae on your router. If it has two, use them, but make sure they are extended and free from obstructions (metal) that might interfere with the radio signal. 3) You might want to try another card. The Netgear folks have really been able to significantly increase the range and speed of the cards/routers with recent wifi technology. 4) When you carry your laptop, do not hold the antenae area (or cover it with your hand) and carry the unit with the antenae positioned towards the router antenae. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 01 March 2007 13:13, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

I use SuSE 10.2 and KDE. I hook onto the Internet by way of a wireless router. My WiFi card works when I boot up, but does not continue to work when I take the laptop while it is on and move to another room. When I reboot from that room, the wireless connection is established. I am using KNetworkManager. Is this curable?

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Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130

I am a retired RF engineer. When one looks at field strength of an RF signal versus location, one finds that there are peaks and nulls. My intuitive feeling for your problem is that as you carry the computer from one location to the next, there is some small area where there is a very deep null--perhaps as much as 30 dB--and you lose synchronization at that point. There would not be any cure, if that's the problem. If there is going to be a loss of data, then you should save before you move, log off, and then log in again after you move. RF is a fickle bitch when you're inside a structure. Sometimes when you're outside. Consider the peculiarity of cell phone connections. (Many cell phones operate on frequencies fairly close to those of RF routers.) --doug, wa2say --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org