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No matter which brand you choose, you may have experienced a sudden loss of reception from your wireless router. You may only get a signal when you are within 5 feet of the Router, or the Router may not even show up when you search for it.

I have had several Routers: Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and even a Novatech and this has happened to all of them. The router either shuts of power to the Radio transmiter or the Radio transmitter burns out completely. 

When this happens, you may get lucky by just doing a Hard Reset and then reprogramming the Router. Also it may not be the router, it may be your wireless card too. But if you find out it is the router what can you do?

Well the answer is: reset it or replace it.  You can also try doing a firmware update. But if none of this works, then this basically means that the radio transmiter or amplifier chip inside the router, or wireless card has burned out. This may have been caused by too much heat, or because of a power surge. If you still have a warranty then take it back and return it. If not buy a new one for about $50. This time buy it at a Store like BestBuy of Circuit City. Pay an extra $10 for the 3 year extended warranty. Also make sure to use a power strip.

Another thing: Always activate the WEP or other Wireless security features. It is possible that hackers can do things to your wireless router, pc’s and network that will cause the radio transmitter to burn out too. If you do not know how to setup security then you should unplug your router. Or you can call me and I will help walk you through this over the phone.

http://www.movicompservices.com

And lastly, if you ever go away for vacation, please unplug your router.

This applies to:

Linksys, Netgear, Belkin, 3com, Novatech etc.

As I predicted 2 years ago. This technology is going to be the next boom. It may help revive our economy and make us forget about the housing slump.

It looks like Comcast, Time Warner, Sprint-Nextel, Verizon, Google and Clearwire are planning on investing Billions of dollars into this technology:

http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2008/03/26/the-cable-guys-could-be-sprints-last-chance.aspx

Now you can relate this to my WIMAX post below which I wrote about in 2006:

http://www.blogsomebody.com/wimax-and-why-i-think-it-will-be-considered-one-of-the-greatest-inventions-of-the-2000-decade/

What do you think will happen next?

Lately everybody is buying new Plasma and LCD TV’s and they are beautiful.

But they look even better if you can mount them on the wall and hide the wires.

I have learned how to do this and now I am offereing this service as part of my Movicomp Services Installations. I have a lot of experience with hooking up Stereos, DJ equipment and Home Theater systems with Surround Sound. And I also still do Computer Repairs and Home Network installations. I can run all of the wires and neatly. So if you live in the local Miami area or Broward. Look up my web site at:

http://www.movicompservices.com

In the meantime don’t forget that you too can post your comments and questions here and I will be more that glad to assist you.

If you read my other articles about why I think we are going to see a strong rally in the stock market over the next 2 years. Here is another reason. I had previously mentioned that I see a lot of similarities between now and about 10 years ago. But now I am going to mention another reason.

 In the later part of the 1990’s and beginning in 1995, we saw the beginning of the Internet as we know today. In 1995 Netscape introduced a tool which we call a browser and it became one of the most important inventions of the 90’s today. While the internet itself had been around for many years before. Until 1995 it was only used in text only modes. But then in 1995 Netscape and MS Internet Explorer began to give us the internet in a new way. This not only enabled ecommerce in the way we know it today, but so many other things that we take advantage of each day, including high speed internet. And just as the Personal Computer was the great invention of the late 80’s the internet browser became the greatest invention of the 90’s.

And if it were not for this great browser technology, then we would never have had such a big stock market rally in the late 90’s. This was one of the main reasons for all of those Dotcom’s and then we even had Y2k to top it off!

So now  something that I read in an article about 3 years ago is beginning to make sense. They have already predicted that the next great invention for this decade will be Full WIFI access from everybody. And guess what it is beginning to happen. You will now see the term WiMAX. This is that new technology that will help fuel the stock market in the same way that PC did in the 80’s and the Internet Browser did in the 90’s So for 2000 it will be WiMax. WiMax is like taking WIFI which is an the home or small business level and now the range goes form under 300 feet to over 75 miles! If I am correct you will see this technology popup in the news like crazy over the next 5 years. So while we do have some other Geo Political problems. Technology always seems to be able to drive the market in a much stronger ways. They also predicted that certain companies that make this technology possible will be the winner in the NASDAQ So I am wondering what will happen to the stocks of Chip makers like Intel, Motorola or AMD and then telecom giants like AT&T, Verizon, Tmobile, Nextel, Sprint etc and then we have Aperto Networks, Cisco Networks, BlackBerry, Microsoft, IBM, Corning and a few other companies which are already working with this new technology.