Wireless Signal Boosters

suddenly not getting wifi signal?

I bought linksys usb wifi adopter. first two days I got 3points on signal strength and I was ble to access net. but after that i am not getting any points on signal strength but access points says 34% and name also appears. I am not able to access signal. I extended usb but no use. help me,i tried with kitchen utensils as signal booster but no use. outside my building people still access wifi,any problem with my adopter there is mac id given on the router. but i dont know about mac id filter. if this is applied I wouldnt have got connection first time.Please any other solutions

Public Comments

1. Two things: 1) Make sure there's no MAC address filter on your router. Your MAC address is a unique address to your computer, so if your router has a list of these as the only computers to access it, you wouldn't be able to without adding your MAC address to it. 2)Make sure you're entering the correct WEP/WPA password, if any. Hope that helps.
2. If you haven't totally removed and reinstalled the USB wireless drivers, do so! USB wireless has this issue, actually sometimes very often. The drivers seem to get corrupted very easily and when they do, the units stop working. So try that. Also, if you haven't rebooted the AP try that too. Just unplug it, wait 60 seconds and reconnect it. I have had AP's just lockup and nothing works - I have a linksys unit that does this once every week or two.. no reason it just does. If that fails, you may simply have a bad adapter. I have had to return two or three for this very reason! They work a few days and just well die. I now only use a USB adapter when there is no other adapter possible! PCMCIA, PCI, external bridges, anything other than USB.. they just seem more stable.