Artemis WiFi and Belkin N1 Router

[thormdac]

@ all,

it might sound a bit surprising, but I dont get my new artemis ( i now own one with wifi !, my hero didnt!),

working with the wireless of my belkin n1 router!

everytime i enter the mac adress into the router, wlan stops alltogether! ( do i need to enter the mac adress?)

entering the normal wpa-psk passwords into wm6.1 vanilla or b&b5, the connection constantly changes between available, but not connecting, and unavailable... even when sitting right next to the router!:cool:

any ideas?

help highly appreciated!

greetz
thormdac


news:

got it working for now-- changed wlan channel in rpouter to channel11, which is preset in wm6.1!
is that how its done?

Update:

most of the times the router just kills the wlan function all in all once i try to connect with the artemis!
Need to reboot router to get it running again!

Where am i going wrong?


p.s. no, i aint a novice:)

[hutchy007]

I've got the same roblem mate. Not got a clue what to do ?

[Azriaphale]

Had the same issue with a Belkin N router yesterday. Solution I dumped it went down to Maplins and got a Netgear. Plugin and I was away.

Had flashed the rom serveral times (Win 5, 6, 6.1 some of the cooked roms) nothing worked was thinking it was a hardware failure.

Dont' appear to matter how you set the belkin nothing works.

Thou oddly my Exec connects with it just fine.

[thormdac]

Solution I dumped it ...:cool:

Gee, that would for sure make me one unhappy pal!

Anybody around here has another idea!

Possibly some tips on "Must does" ! for connecting via wifi with artemis! Whats with the mac address-thing?!!!

Greetz

[Azriaphale]

To be honest, I've looked at dozens of sites searching for a solution to this issue. Everything from flashing the ROM (Device and router), enter MAC on the router, set a IP address, changing channels, security settings and nothing appear to work with the Belkin N family.

My experience with Belkin has not been good (Tech support has always been first class).

The first router (Cheap 54g) would run for 2 hours then lockup, requiring a reset of both the router and cable modem). Replaced by Belkin after several days talking to tech support.

The second router (Same 54g unit, different Version number) Ran fine until you moved data about, anything downloading above 150k locked the router. Wired connections could do 300k then lock up. Replaced by Belkin.

The third unit (Upgraded to a 2 stick version for free) DOA. Replaced by Belkin

The forth unit (Same 2 stick version) worked data transfers good but would not allow wifi connections other than WEP 64. Firmware update would then WEP 128. Replaced by Belkin.

The Fifth unit (Same 2 stick version, different version) Wifi worked with all settings. However with wifi on all wired connections ran like a 56k modem. Replaced by Belkin.

The sixth unit (Upgraded to the N) Worked fine. Wired connections fine, wifi was a bit hit or miss, two Toshiba laptops connected fine, the Dell laptop never connected. Belkins own N usb dongle also never connected.


My Orbit never connected to any of the Belkins, the Exec did with some and others not.

This issue is not limited to Belkin, if you look about, other makers routers also appear to have this issue.

The cheap Netgear (£35) works just fine for me. Took 5 minutes to setup. Everything in the house connects. I`m happy after 7 months of Belkin issues.

[thormdac]

uiuiui,
what a story!:eek:

just so we dont get us wrong here: had my n1 now for about 6months, and its running just fine with all my notebooks! - just since trying to connect with my artemis i am running into probs!

A theory of this mornings trials:

any way of changing the preconfigured broadcast channel 11 within the artemis? --- seems to me the channelchanging is causing the hangups!

will try setting the router to channel 11 and see what happens!
greetz

[Azriaphale]

Ive set channel to 6 in the N router, the Art/Orbit will find it and go though the motions of connecting and make it unavailable (our problem with N routers). The Network setting will show its on ch6 (if you can there before it becomes unavailable). Then goes to ch11.

I think the Art/Orbit just runs in sequence though the channels, if it gets a lock it uses that channel. If not it moves on, I think we just see ch11 because its the last ch available in the scan.

Have just played with the Netgear channels and the Art/Orbit connects with every channel, the Network setting page shows the correct channel that the routers broadcasting.

So it don't appear that the channel is hard coded to the Art/Orbit.

[tazzix]

Ok stumbled across this thread a little too late. Our Linksys wrt54g was not able to handle the kind of data we were transferring and moved to a Belkin_N1 router, I have an HTC Wizard but same symptoms, if I try to connect to Belkin I can not connect to anything WIFI before a soft-reset, I get prompted for key fine once and during connection something messes up the wifi radio, I am not sure if its a software or hardware issue but got the same issue with an SMC router, while my D-Link at home is working fine. I wasted so much time flashing ROMs and what not. Thanks for everyone who has put info here, somebody can read here and save the pain of hitting the wall with frustration.