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Learning Storage Performance
What I'm about to write should be put under the heading "The X-Files", it's that mysterious.....
I've been fine tuning my Verizon FiOS/Actiontec router via it's webpage for the last few weeks, trying to squeeze out a few more Mbps of download speed for my laptop. In fact, yesterday I was on the phone with a tech. at a Verizon FiOS Support Center for over 2 hours, feverishly taking notes of what the 30 year veteran pc nerd was speaking on the subject of wireless communications. The guy was a wealth of information. Anyway, last night I was minding my own business with my laptop, enjoying another stable connection with the router, when all of a sudden my Firefox browser stopped working. I looked at the wireless connection icon in the system tray, and noticed that it had displayed a yellow warning symbol, meaning that there was no internet connection even though many were available. When I clicked on the icon, I was surprised to see that the network name/SSID code that I changed after my last router reset, reverted back to the default network name/SSID code on the back of the router. You all know that this is not possible, with only Thunderbird and Firefox being open. Either a hard reset at the back of the router or a Restore Defaults command at the router's webpage can initiate such a drastic action. Let it be known that the internet connection was re-established to the factory default settings, within a few seconds of the event. To confirm what I saw, I opened the router's webpage. Sure enough, every setting that I remember manually changing was back to the default setting. My desktop pc uses the same router with an ethernet connection, and everything is fine with it.
To further investigate, I switched from my FiOS connection to the Cablevision modem connection (with wireless router attached) of my next door neighbor, and it worked as always. This eliminated my laptop as the problem.
Does anybody have any thoughts on this event?
While on the subject, can anybody suggest a Wi-Fi monitoring program that will show me everything I need to know about my network and the many others around me, so that I can fine tune the router for better performance? I've been using InSSIDer since Aug. 2009, and it's lacking a few parameters that would be helpful to me.
I've been fine tuning my Verizon FiOS/Actiontec router via it's webpage for the last few weeks, trying to squeeze out a few more Mbps of download speed for my laptop. In fact, yesterday I was on the phone with a tech. at a Verizon FiOS Support Center for over 2 hours, feverishly taking notes of what the 30 year veteran pc nerd was speaking on the subject of wireless communications. The guy was a wealth of information. Anyway, last night I was minding my own business with my laptop, enjoying another stable connection with the router, when all of a sudden my Firefox browser stopped working. I looked at the wireless connection icon in the system tray, and noticed that it had displayed a yellow warning symbol, meaning that there was no internet connection even though many were available. When I clicked on the icon, I was surprised to see that the network name/SSID code that I changed after my last router reset, reverted back to the default network name/SSID code on the back of the router. You all know that this is not possible, with only Thunderbird and Firefox being open. Either a hard reset at the back of the router or a Restore Defaults command at the router's webpage can initiate such a drastic action. Let it be known that the internet connection was re-established to the factory default settings, within a few seconds of the event. To confirm what I saw, I opened the router's webpage. Sure enough, every setting that I remember manually changing was back to the default setting. My desktop pc uses the same router with an ethernet connection, and everything is fine with it.
To further investigate, I switched from my FiOS connection to the Cablevision modem connection (with wireless router attached) of my next door neighbor, and it worked as always. This eliminated my laptop as the problem.
Does anybody have any thoughts on this event?
While on the subject, can anybody suggest a Wi-Fi monitoring program that will show me everything I need to know about my network and the many others around me, so that I can fine tune the router for better performance? I've been using InSSIDer since Aug. 2009, and it's lacking a few parameters that would be helpful to me.