If you have several laptops (or even a printer on the WiFi) you can ping between devices to check if the WiFi is communicating, without having to have the DSL working. So, you can identify which part of the network is out.
Jon
OK - this horse is dead, flayed, flensed, tanned, rendered, dried, peppered, salted and jerked.
For the typical user, the problems described herein would have been solved in less time than the OP took to make the initial post.
The less typical user would have taken at least some of the advice given in the first half-dozen (non-snarky) responses and solved the problem within 24 hours.
That it has gone on this long indicates that the OP is neither typical, less typical nor even trainable, but a bottomless pit of need without the capacity to understand the actual situation.
Ah, well.
Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA
And it seems to have fixed itself. Connection is solid as a rock now.
That leads me to believe that it was interference and whether it was the other or me, something adapted. After all if it interfered with me I probably interfered with it.
Have you tried going into the WiFi hub's configuration page and changing the channel number (frequency)? If there is some local interference, you might be able to move to a clear channel.
-- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ If it wasn't for physics and law enforcement, I would be unstoppable!
And almost everyone else here is probably similarly-minded, but just doesn't say so.
Sometimes you just have to continue shutting-off and un-plugging things in your house (maybe even elsewhere, too) until you find the interference source. Always get the help-desk operator's name and number and give him/her your's, too (the story then tends to go in your favor drastically)
And regardless of the brand, who's bothering to strip-down or pressure-wash the surface with soap and water?
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