Wireless bridge is not working (50% of the time)

[Phoenix Spud]

Hi all,

We are having some trouble with our wireless bridge. Here is the situation:

We have hooked up our cRIO, router, and bridge to the robot and all was great. We had some minor trouble but we figured out it was the cRIO not getting enough power once the motors were going. (our batteries still have not arrived, so we are using 12V 7 AMP batteries. They only last about 15-20 minutes.) We even took our robot to a sponsor yesterday to show them the robot, and we ran wirelessly. They were really impressed. Now, our bridge is getting really slow/flaky on us. We are ping-ing it and about half of the time, we get a "request has timed out" error. We hooked up the bridge to a computer and we can see that it is not seeing all the ping messages. The ping messages that it does respond to are really slow. We have checked the connector and it is OK, we even plugged the bridge back into the wall to make sure that the connector was not the problem.

Any ideas on what we are doing wrong? Is our wireless fried somehow???

Thanks!