FutureMon
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join:2000-10-05
Colorado Springs, CO
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Re: Wireless is hard
My buddy comes over to my house with his XP laptop that has built-in wireless. My laptop is running Win98 and a PCMCIA D-Link card.
The two laptops can be sitting right next to each other, mine streaming audio and video, his sitting in IRC, and he'll lose his connection randomly while mine hums along quite fine.
To me, that sounds like an XP driver problem.
Funny thing is, my D-Link signal strength indicator would sometimes say "Not connected" and yet I could still browse and stream.
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Nerdtalker
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join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
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| said by FutureMon  :
To me, that sounds like an XP driver problem.
I think so, I've got 2 laptops with WIFI and never even knew this was a problem...
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DHRacer
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join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA
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| So, if you go into the Services Manager and turn off the Wireless Zero Config service, and then make sure it is set to disabled on startup, does this solve the problem?
If you turn this off, how do you install and configure Wireless Adapters?
I'd like to know, since some guys in my office have XP notebooks that do this, and I finally gave up trying to figure out why, and just told them to live with it.
If it can be fixed, I'll be estatic.
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CTCNetwork
join:2003-05-17
Notts
| Hi,
When I set my WiFi up I had terrible issues with connectivity and trying to config the WEP. . . .
Untill I turned off the WinXp wireless control and installed the software that came ith thcard (Netgear).
"a Microsoft spokesman gives an interesting runaround, suggesting the indicator indicates your "association" with an access point, not signal strength"! I think that sums it all up.
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DHRacer
Fire Survivor
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Lake Arrowhead, CA | thanks
i'll tell him to shut that service off and install the software if it isnt already.
chalk that up to another case of Microsoft playing "they know best". |
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