Wireless constantly dropping connection
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From: Danny Kile on 24 Feb 2005 21:05 ironmak wrote: > I just recently set up a wireless home network using a Linksys WRT54GS > Router, a WPC54GS card in my laptop and WMP54GS card in my desktop PC. > The laptop works perfectly without any problems. I set up my desktop with > the same settings and it keeps dropping te connection. The signal strength is > just a little less on the desktop but is still showing 91%. I have to always > click on the wireless "repair" in order to connect to the internet again. I > have tried switching to different channels without any help. Does anyone know > of a program that I can use that would run in the background, that checks the > internet connection and reconnects when it is lost? Or is there a way of > getting this resolved so that it stays connected. Thank you! Symptom: Wireless connection periodically connects and disconnects at intervals of a few minutes. Cause: Newer 802.11g wireless network cards may have 802.1x authentication enabled by default. This may cause problems when trying to connect to wireless networks because they are not currently configured for this type of authentication. The wireless card will connect for a few minutes before it tries to authenticate. When it attempts to authenticate it will fail and disconnect. A few minutes later it will connect again without authenticating and the connection/disconnection cycle will continue. Resolution: Disable 802.1x authentication on the wireless card. In Windows XP: Go to Start>>Control Panel>>Network Connections Double Click Your Wireless Network Connection Click Properties Click Wireless Networks Tab Choose the SSID you are using in the Preferred Networks area Click Properties Click on the Authentication Tab Make sure that Enable 802.1x authentication for this network is NOT checked. Click OK Click OK Click Close -- Danny Kile Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY "Dogs come when they're called, CATS take a message and get back to you." Mary Bly |