Vista - need PCI Card or USB for N Router to work with Vista Home Basic...

i have a PCI G wireless card in my desktop with Vista Home Basic and it keeps dropping my wireless connection or it gets a weak signal. I'm only about 20 ft from the router. However, it sometimes picks up my neighbors network.
Anyone out there can recommend either a USB or another PCI card that has Vista drivers and works with a Linksys N router?
thanking you in advance.

Try using a different channel that your router broadcasts on.


"snowpak" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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how do i change "the channel" of the broadcast?

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:12:30 -0600, snowpak <guest@xxxxxx-email.com>
wrote:
Go into the router's home page (usually at http://192.168.1.1). IIRC,
the default user name is blank and the password is "password".

On the Wireless page, change the "channel". Choose 1, 6, or 11. Note
that when you click "Save Settings" that you will be disconnected
since you just changed the channel you were hooked up on. So, when the
browser give you an error, it's OK to ignore it. The only way to see a
"successful" page is to do it from a hard wired system.

Reboot, or if you are up for it, disable/enable the wireless card in
Device Manager.

See how it works after that.