WiFi Woes :(

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Hi Kids,

What is it with me and WiFi kit?  It seems to work fine for a few
days/weeks/months even, then it goes on the blink.
Had it with my linksys WAP11, a belkin 54G, and now a linksys WAP54G

I set them up on the bench and they run fine for a few days, then I move
them to node 0.5 (maybe this is the problem) where they sit on top of a
couple of little parasound zamps.  Have 3 fans in there so nothing gets
too hot, and all is sweet....but after a while it goes titsup.com

The WAP11 lasted a few months, the belkin a few weeks, and this latest
WAP54 a couple of months again.
With both the WAP11 and WAP54, the connection just craps out after a while
and is resolved by power cycling the thing.
With the belikin, it just crapped out completely.

The WAP54 only started happening recently and I did a bit of
experimentation - when the wap was in node0.5, the lappy lost it's signal
a few feet from the WAP.
Take it out of node0.5 and the signal is fine again, though with this
sporadic dropping out - which could take place a few days later, a few
weeks later, a few hours later.

Now the obvious answer is "Stop putting them in node0.5 you
twat", but I
want to know why - what could be causing this?
Could it be, I dunno - something like it ain't happy sitting on the amps
and is inducing some sort of feedback or something or other that causes
the hardware to go mental and burn out after a period of time?

Maybe node0.5 is NOT the problem - have DECT phones, RF, IR, mobile phone
signals floating round the house, but that's about it - and the WAP is not
sitting on/near a source of any of those signals.....

Any thoughts peeps - I've now got a pile of next to useless WAPs and don't
really want to add to that pile.

cheers,

NoFi Butler :(