{"id":750,"date":"2003-11-05T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/11\/05\/11-5-03\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T23:16:25","slug":"wireless-80211-usb-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/wireless-80211-usb-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless 802.11 USB adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After getting ready to be very mad at D-Link for selling me hope <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20031105DWL-122.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"144\" width=\"129\" \/>(only to have that hope dashed against the rocks of not-working-ness) I am happy with my new sexy little D-Link DWL-122 Wireless 802.11 USB adapter. Isn&#8217;t it just the cutest thing you ever did see? You see, I&#8217;m all excited because this is pretty much the first thing that I bought outright for Computer Guy. And hey, how often do you get to use so many buzzwords in the name of a thing&#8230; &#8220;D-Link DWL-122 Wireless 802.11 USB adapter&#8221;. Oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p>I was about to send the darn thing back when I figured out what was going on&#8230;  It&#8217;s really very simple. The channel I was on had too much static. I switched the router to channel 2 and it worked just peachy. Before that, I&#8217;d get terribly sporadic service&#8230; on for 5 seconds, off for 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. No, that wasn&#8217;t it. I moved 200 meg of data with it, now I can&#8217;t get a connection again. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR<\/p>\n<p>GRRR2. Maybe it IS it. I changed the channel to 3 and BOOM, it works ok now&#8230; GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.<\/p>\n<p>OK, now I upgraded that laptop (a Gateway Solo 3100) computer to XP and when I reboot, the adapter works right away. So it LOOKS like if I have Win98 SE on the laptop and I change the channel on the router while the laptop is turned on, the laptop will get a connection. If I have XP, the connection will work right when I turn it on. Of course, I can&#8217;t test the Win98 hypothesis on this computer any more because I&#8217;m not going back just for a silly test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting ready to be very mad at D-Link for selling me hope (only to have that hope dashed against the rocks of not-working-ness) I am happy with my new sexy little D-Link DWL-122 Wireless 802.11 USB adapter. Isn&#8217;t it just the cutest thing you ever did see? You see, I&#8217;m all excited because this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}