I recently introduced wireless networking to my home computer setup (laptop, 3 PC's and Cat5 10Mb/s Switch) with a Netcomm Wireless Access Point and an SMC PCMCIA Card.
It all runs nicely and I can access everything on the other computers via the network including the internet via ICS from the Laptop from anywhere in the house.
Almost all the time link quality and signal strength are over 95% and the laptop and AP are separated (about 20m) by a single wall.
I do however, suspect that things are not perfect.
When transferring files, say over 500kb, I believe they are being corrupted in transit. WinZip and Cabinet (Program Install) files will not open although their size remains the same. Some files have CRC errors, BMP images are corrupted with banding and JPG's are incomplete when they load.
I have tried changing the fragmentation threshold and RTS values but anything other than the defaults seems to make matters much worse.
Can someone shed some light on what could be happening and whether this is "normal" for a wireless network? Should I just reconfigure for 5.5Mb/s?
Any input would be appreciated.
Trevor Liu.
