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While my experience with routers isn't too in depth, shouldn't you just be able to pop in the router's IP address and play around with settings?
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I'm not so sure of the Belkins. Already, I have had several problems with the Belkins holding down a connection.
I am on wireless right now. I'm currently connected to a DLink router. Where I used to work, it was a Linksys.
If you can, try a different router.
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Topher: Yes, you can. If you knew the IP address. Which I don't. There's probably a dead easy way of finding out, but I've no idea.
Trying a different router isn't quite possible at the moment, Tahna. Are you on XP? Does your connection ever, ever drop (remember, mine just drops for about 3 seconds)?
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Never drops. I also use Windows XP.
I've played Counterstrike on it, no problems whatsoever. The only time there is a problem is when my landlord uses his cordless phone, the signal sometimes interferes with the connection.
Keep in mind that I don't simply play a LAN game, I play online. For hours at time. For great comfort and violence.
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Do you have 5 people connected to it, a house with two fridge freezers and 5 television sets, and 6 mobile phones?
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Yikes. With all that EMR flying around, no wonder your connection gets mucked up...
The router's IP address should be 192.168.0.1 or something like that, with the computers being 192.168.0.2-6, no?
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"The only computer that is on 24/7 is the one directly connected to the router."
Why is that computer connected through an ethernet cable, anyway? I mean, wires kind of defeat the purpose of having a wireless network, so... buh?
"Anything else I should look for?"
There are a few other things you could try. You really shouldn't, though, unless overriding the WZC service doesn't work at all.
1) Configure your AP to broadcast its default SSID.
2) Uncheck "enable IEEE 802.1x authentication" in Control Panel ==>> Network Connections ==>> (your connection) ==>> Properties ==>> Wireless Networks ==>> Available Networks ==>> Configure ==>> Authentication. Do this if you're not being asked to connect to another network when your connection drops.
3) Turn off power saving on all network cards.
"And I don't think that the CM users have to reconnect after 5 minutes. For them, it's the once an hour thing."
Hmm. I'm pretty sure it's a game quirk, then.
"There's probably a dead easy way of finding out, but I've no idea."
Open a DOS box. Type "IPConfig /all". Press enter. Read the IP displayed in the Default Gateway row (which ought to match the IP in the DHCP Server row, and should be 192.168.1.something). Then enter that address in Explorer. Then play with the settings. Then wait an hour. Then... well, I don't know. RTFM. B)
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Well, as speedy as modern wireless networks are, you still can't beat a good old fashioned wire for bandwidth (and reliability and security). Especially if you get 1000 base-t...
Actually, thats a good question. Does the guy on a wire ever have any disconnection problems, playing AoM or otherwise?
That can at least narrow down your search.
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Thanks. I'll check some of that stuff when I get home from work.
The guy on the wire never loses his connection, although he hasn't actually played AOM yet. The reason he's on a wire is that his computer was originally plugged directly into the cable modem. When we got the router, and plugged THAT directly into the cable modem, we figured that we might as well then plug the router directly into his computer, since it was right next to it.
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Okay, the ip addresses all appear to be correct. We got the machine that's directly plugged in to host, and the game ticked along fine for an hour. One computer lost the connection briefly during that time, but then it picked it up and carried on.
However, at shortly after the hour mark another one disconencted, and when the bloke tried to ALT+TAB to get back to the Windows desktop to click "repair", the computer froze for about 15 seconds. And then by the time he'd actually repaired the connection, the 30 second time limit had expired.
Anyone have any idea how we can change that 30 second limit to something more reasonable, like a couple of minutes? Then we'd have no problem.
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