I was on the point of telling him to send it back as DOA until I happened across a suggestion that changing the channel was suitable magic.

After that, my Mac laptop could see and connect to it fine, steady as a rock. Mind you, his XP laptop with a Belkin cardbus wifi adapter is still having trouble.

"There it is! Oh, no it's gone again. Oh wait, here's a list of 9 other wireless networks apart from the one that's broadcasting from two feet away. Think I'll crash now (C-A-D). Hi, ooh ooh, there it is. Ah now, sorry, it's gone again."

This isn't just shite wrapped up in crap and topped with a frosting of vomit, this is *MS* shite wrapped up in crap and topped with a frosting of vomit.

While I'm ranting :-) I love the new MS "I'm a PC!" adverts.

"I'm a human being, not a human thinking or a human doing... a human being".

Yeah, right, you're not doing anything useful, you're not thinking anything useful, you're just being frustrated at every turn.

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simon