Update: Wireless Connection

So it seems I may have been to hasty in blaming the schols network for my wireless network issues. I started using wireless at home to see if the problem would happen there -- and it did. There's nothing more annoying than watching a movie and all of a sudden having it stop playing. Not being able to slack off at school is one thing, but this is a whole other issue.

I grep'ed through my logs and found all sorts of this stuff:

Oct 15 00:00:37 wesley dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67
Oct 15 00:00:38 wesley dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Oct 15 00:00:38 wesley dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
Oct 15 00:00:49 wesley dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Oct 15 00:00:49 wesley dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
Oct 15 00:00:52 wesley dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67
Oct 15 00:01:01 wesley dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
Oct 15 00:01:01 wesley dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
Oct 15 00:01:04 wesley dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67
Oct 15 00:01:19 wesley dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Oct 15 00:01:19 wesley dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
Oct 15 00:01:22 wesley dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67
Oct 15 00:01:30 wesley dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
Oct 15 00:01:30 wesley dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
Oct 15 00:01:30 wesley dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67

The times on that correspond *exactly* to when I was booted offline. 'dhclient' is the default dhcp client in Ubuntu Dapper. However I prefer 'pump', it's something I always install after a re-format. It seems that my manually usage of pump doesn't work so well with Ubuntu's automagic dhcp stuff'n'crap. I guess the two daemons fight for who will hold control over the lease -- I'm not sure. In any case, after doing an apt-get remove dhcp3-client the problem was solved! No more wireless issues, yey!

Now...if I could only get something to automatically login to bluesocket for me I would be even happier

The little connection that couldn't.

The wireless internet at my school sucks. Since the start of the Fall semester is has been barely usable. My connection is dropped every 2 to 10 minutes. I've upgraded the drivers for my wireless card -- didn't help at all. It happens all over the damn school but not *all* the time.

It's hard to say exactly what it is. Between the summer and fall semesters I upgraded to Ubuntu Dapper, but I don't think that would cause these problems. Especially since I'm running a custom kernel and the latest drivers. Tom has similar issues. I think it's just the access points being overloaded with traffic.

It's really frustrating though, and defeats the purpose of having wireless access.