While I have been ill for a couple of days I decided to tidy up our wireless netwrok.

The WAN connection is 3Mb to a cable provider. The router is a Belkin 54g. The cards are a mixture of Belkin 54 for the 'workhorse', a couple of old USR 11Mb ones for an old machine that is not used much and an old laptop and an Intel 54g in a new laptop. The machine nearest the router is hard wired at either 100 mb or a gigabit can't remember but it doesn't realy matter:-)

I tried WEP security once but it seemed to slow everything down - Mind you that was on an old 22Mb router I had. Not tried it yet on this one but I have enabled MAC address filtering so no-one can 'piggy back' our network.

OK - First things first. I found that I was getting a poor connection around 1/2 the time. Found out that was because I was connecting to someone elses router! Fixed that. Changed the SSID and IP address range.

I have also had a play with the channel ID until I have now got a reasonable connection most of the time. Signal strength seems to be good but the speed goes up and down like a fiddlers elbow from the 2 54g cards - Most of the time it is 36 - 54 but occasionaly drops to 1! The 11Mb ones seems to be consistent.

Any advice or comments would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Dave