astamandPremium
join:2003-10-11
Temple, NH | It's really no mystery...
It's long been known that if you use the client that comes with your wireless card, and have the “Windows XP Wireless Zero Configuration Service” enabled, you’ll get intermittent conflicts that will drop the connection, even though you have full signal.
The reason is that when you run the XP wireless client and have another installed (such as the one from your adapter) the idle service (whichever one you are not using actively) will occasionally try to create a connection to the Access Point thus stealing away the connection from the active client for a moment.
The solution is to either disable the Wireless Zero Configuration Service and use the client that came with your adapter or remove the client application for your adapter (not the driver) and use the XP built in service.
Also, always keep your wireless drivers up to date. A good example is some of the Dell Broadcom “True Mobile” adapters that had horrible performance issues in the past and have recently improved dramatically with new drivers released in the last couple of months.
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 DeathKPremium
join:2002-06-16
Cincinnati, OH | Disabling the Wireless Zero Configuration service brings ill side-effects though. For example, if you leave it off and don't turn it back on before you shut down your computer, the next time you turn your computer on XP takes entirely too long to boot. Once you actually get in Windows your startup apps with taskbar icons take forever to show up and your wirless client icon, D-Link Airplus icon for me (as well as the status icon with two monitors), don't show up at all.
I really don't want to have to manually re-enable the service everytime I shut down my computer in order to avoid these issues. |
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astamandPremium
join:2003-10-11
Temple, NH | said by DeathK:
Disabling the Wireless Zero Configuration service brings ill side-effects though. For example, if you leave it off and don't turn it back on before you shut down your computer, the next time you turn your computer on XP takes entirely too long to boot. Once you actually get in Windows your startup apps with taskbar icons take forever to show up and your wirless client icon, D-Link Airplus icon for me (as well as the status icon with two monitors), don't show up at all.
I really don't want to have to manually re-enable the service everytime I shut down my computer in order to avoid these issues.
It does solve the problem however. I should note that the problem you mention does exist and is fixed in Service Pack 2.
If it's not one thing it another, right?
-=Alex
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