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compugeek I love making my own beer. Premium join:2002-07-30 Pickerington, OH ·Insight VOIP ·Vonage	Not going crazy after all All this time I thought that I was going crazy... I have a couple of laptops that I can site right next to my AP or Router and there will be 100% signal strength then all the sudden XP says the connection was dropped, a couple of seconds later it comes right back. It is even worse if I have WEP enabled. Geek
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Dude I feel your pain, I formated my laptop cause I was having the problem, and sure enough it came right back. I felt like a @#$@#% after all that, and backing up all my mp3's, and pirated divx movies just to waste time. It really sucks, but its M$.

Another thing that drives me crazy is when the connection is dropped, and it comes back up without an ip address, just the default 169 bullcrap, even though I have great signal. To fix this, it requires you to reboot, and cross your fingers.
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permalink · 2004-06-04 17:26:51 · Print ·

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said by compugeek :
All this time I thought that I was going crazy... I have a couple of laptops that I can site right next to my AP or Router and there will be 100% signal strength then all the sudden XP says the connection was dropped, a couple of seconds later it comes right back. It is even worse if I have WEP enabled.

Geek

I have had the same problem on my nephew' computer. His computer runs windows xp pro. It's just erratic and somewhat annoying. He doesn't use it too much, so it's one of the annoyances we deal with.

There are also issues with the zero wireless configuration if you have or do install software that came with the wireless card. XP doesn't like someone else's software for some reason. If you disable windows zero wireless, you're supposed to be able to use other software, but I don't believe it. I think it's still running somewhere in the background.

The funny thing is that my niece's computer (same room) has windows 2000, uses the software that came with the very same wireless card and never drops a bit. Never an issue.

I've always figured it was xp or something, but who wants to call Microsoft when there solution will always be to call the vendor.

permalink · 2004-06-04 17:34:10 · Print ·

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Dealing with this issue right now!

Dell Inspiron Laptop, new. Installed Linksys 54G card. Worked great for about 2 weeks. One morning the laptop gets turned on and it can't connect right away. Takes it over a minute, and it's on and off all day, all by itself. The activity LED on the PCCArd appears to have long gaps of no connectivity during large file transfers. Even if I turn off all security on my WRTG54S router and turn SSID on, the Dell Laptop only 'sees' an available signal part of the time, this all the while the laptop is 4 feet from the router.

I have been going crazy trying to troubleshoot this. GAD! Hope MS owns up to this, and offers a fix. BTW, this same card in a Win98se laptop is rock solid.

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said by compugeek :
All this time I thought that I was going crazy... I have a couple of laptops that I can site right next to my AP or Router and there will be 100% signal strength then all the sudden XP says the connection was dropped, a couple of seconds later it comes right back. It is even worse if I have WEP enabled.

I have the same problem with my XP laptop...conection mysteriously drops and comes back rapidly, but rather anoying...especially if I'm using XWIN32 or PuTTY.

Up until now, I've been blaming my microwave

permalink · 2004-06-04 18:38:38 · Print ·

compugeek I love making my own beer. Premium join:2002-07-30 Pickerington, OH	Re: Not going crazy after all Yeah and Putty will drop you like nothing if there is a little glich in the connection. I use it to talk to my webservers alot and I am always having to restart the session. Geek
	permalink · 2004-06-05 15:56:55 ·

Squarrel5 @206.126.x.x	I have the exact same problem with my XP laptop, especially since I have enabled WEP on my Linksys AP. We've always had problems with Wifi in our home, and its time for someone to take some accountability here and stop using blame and giving the runaround.
	permalink · 2004-06-04 18:47:16 ·

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