Keep losing Connection

[craigba]

Hi guys,

I have a 2MB USB Modem and have recently moved into an area with "White" Iburst signal (i.e. no signal). This is a duplex, so upstairs' connection is kind of alright, but downstairs seems to be a problem. If it was a problem since the beginning I would understand, but in the last month or so, the connection disconnects very frequently and the only way I can reconnect is to manually do it. Is there any way to get it to reconnect by itself (I have tried on the PPoE connection to redial, but this doesn't work very well). Why would it only start three months down the line to do this?

Part two of the question: Would I be able to leave the Modem upstairs, run it via USB cable downstairs and have the same connection (it would probably be 2 x 5m cables) or am i delusional?

Craig

 

[chrisc]

First part: Some interference is present now that was not previously, hence your connection problem

Second part - USB does not like long cables. A better solution would be to get a wi-fi router and share it that way. Or, run a cable to an outside aerial for the iBurst device

 

[craigba]

First part: Some interference is present now that was not previously, hence your connection problem

Second part - USB does not like long cables. A better solution would be to get a wi-fi router and share it that way. Or, run a cable to an outside aerial for the iBurst device

I had tried that. I was able to share the connection's internet, and since then it started to lose connectivity. I reinstalled my Iburst thinking that would solve it and it didn't
I assume I would have to have a machine upstairs connected to the router?

 

[chrisc]

No, you can get a USB router which stands alone. You can connect a machine via a LAN cable or wirelessly, if your machine has wi-fi, like laptops do. Or you can get a USB wireless dongle

It seems the original problem is a poor iBurst signal.

 

[ginggs]

I have a 2MB USB Modem and have recently moved into an area with "White" Iburst signal (i.e. no signal).

Do you have a 2Mbps modem or a USB modem? The 2Mbps modems are Ethernet only.

I think first get an external antenna. If you can afford it, get a wireless router as well. Install the router upstairs to keep the antenna cable short. Be careful though, there are only a few routers that will work with the iBurst USB modem. If your iBurst modem has Ethernet, then any router with a WAN port will do, TP-Link and Mikrotik are popular choices.

 

[craigba]

Just for anyone who might be interested: I managed to fix this by setting up the Iburst Connection and sharing over the wireless.
I setup an Ad-hoc wireless network and this worked...

There was a further problem, as Android doesn't pick up ad-hocs, but that's another story altogether