I grabbed a network cable and headed downstairs to see what was wrong, hooking up the laptop to it directly. After having a quick poke around the configuration menus, it was pretty apparent what had happened.
The Speedtouch 585 v7 is administration menu is a fairly simple affair. There's not much you can do here really, most of the really interesting stuff has to be done through telnet commands. Without many options to choose from, you really can't go too far wrong.
First, I went to Home Network > Interfaces > WLAN: Thomson. The quick way there is shown in the screenshot below.

Next, I entered the configuration menu by clicking the 'Configure' hyperlink in the top right of the screen:


Finally, I expanded the combo-box for 'Channel Selection' and selected 'Automatic', this unlocked the 'Channel', and I selected channel 11, which is a more commonly used wireless channel and one I didn't expect to give me problems:

Once I clicked 'Apply' that was it - the router required a restart to apply the new settings and once it came back up I was in e-business. It's been connected at 54 Mbps ever since.
2 comments:
auto mode changes wifi channel based on a site survey of other APs. some wireless cards do not understand the communication protocol for channel changing and will lose connection until they reconnect on the new channel.
Yeah, that was the problem - it wasn't reconnecting on the new channel (6).
Thanks for the neat definition.
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