[LHammer610]

Over the last few days, I have come home to a dead wireless network on my Verizon / Westell DSL Modem 327W. Coincidentally, this has occurred since I set up to FTP over the Internet to my home system. I cannot claim cause and effect, but it is suspecious.

My modem indicates that all is well. The wireless LED is on. When I sign onto the modem via the browser, the status indicates the network is up. Yet my Mac's get absolutely no signal. I have found that if I shut down the wireless network within the browser control, then restart, the wireless network resumes.

Then the next day, it is down again.

Any ideas?

Is the FTP connection kicking the wireless out of it's LAN IP address or something?

[smax013]

I would suspect that it is coincidence.

It seems more likely that there is something wrong with your router/wireless access point.

Of course, you could test it by turning off the FTP access and see if things get better.

[smax013]

Oh, I should note that FTP is not the most secure protocol. It is generally recommended to not use FTP. The main reason is that your FTP login information is transmitted unencrypted across the Net, if I recall correctly.

[LHammer610]

"Oh, I should note that
FTP is not the most secure protocol. It is generally recommended to not
use FTP. The main reason is that your FTP login information is
transmitted unencrypted across the Net, if I recall correctly."

I have heard the same thing, although SFTP apparently is an option. Is there a better way for me to retrieve files from my home server than FTP?

[smax013]

LHammer610 said:

I have heard the same thing, although SFTP apparently is an option. Is there a better way for me to retrieve files from my home server than FTP?

SFTP is one option.

This might help:

http://itso.iu.edu/SecureFileTransfer_Alternatives

[LHammer610]

Thanks.

This may be coincidence also, but I manually changed the channel on my wireless. I have not had any problems since and I noticed that my Internet radio stations load much faster on my wireless Internet radio. Maybe there was interference (from a neighbor?) or something.

[smax013]

Could be it was interference...especially if the computer that you had FTP forwarding to was connected wirelessly.