I have a WiFi problem as well. I have a couple of "cold spots" (seems an appropriate description) in the house where there is no reception. They are very small areas, just a couple of feet across where I lose my link to the network.

What puzzles me is:

- everywhere else in the house I can maintain 11mbps, at no point does it drop below 11
- even when I lose the link the signal indicator that WinXP provides stays at 100%

One of the "cold spots" is only 12 feet from my desktop machine which routes me onto my wired network.

I use an access point, do all devices have to be able to "see" the access point at all times or do they fall off the network when they can see other devices but no the access point ?

WiFi saved me from a very boring hour last Friday. I have a long commute on the days I work in the office (1.5 hours to 3.5 hours depending on traffic). Friday was very bad, so I was sat in the A1/M25 motorway services waiting for a blockage on the M25 to clear.

Thankfully the services now has BT Openzone a hot spot, so I fired up my laptop, paid my £6 (about $9 US) and surfed for an hour. I still think that £6 an hour is a bit steep, but it kept me entertained...