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November 24th, 2004 16:00

Wireless Connection Drops

I have an X300 with built-in wireless and a Netgear Access Point, using 802.11a. My OS is XP. Periodically, without moving, my ability to connect to the internet stops working for about 1 minute. Then, it reestablishes itself. My laptop shows a Good or better signal strength. But, the Wireless Connection Icon showing traffic shows only pings going out and no response coming back.
 
I've never had this problem with my Latitude using a Netgear PC card that only transmits 802.11a. I've been using the same exact home network setup for 2 years without experiencing any problems. The problem only occurs with the X300 and it's happened since day 1, about 2 months ago. No matter what I do, I don't seem to be able to force reestablishing the connection- Disable/Enable, select my Access Point and click Connect, Open another Browser. It reestablishes itself in it own time.
 
Could it be something with XP, the fact that wireless card in the laptop works for more than just 802.11a, the fact that it periodically picks up and looses a weak 802.11b access point from a neighbor's house, or a compatibility issue with the laptop built-in card with the Access Point?
 
Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!
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    Posted November 24th, 2004 23:00

    I had a similar problem.  I have the Intel 2100 Pro card, and what I found was I had to tell the adapter run at max. performance, not max. battery.  I do not know if you have the same setting for your card, but it's worth a look.

    Hope that helps!

    Wayne

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    Posted November 25th, 2004 10:00

    Thank you for the advice. I couldn't find that setting on my adapter. But, I made another adpater change to only use 802.11a and disable b and g to see if that will help. Thanks for the pointer.
     
    Jeff
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    ThatEvoGuy

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    Posted November 29th, 2004 11:00

    Try this:

    1. Open internet explorer.

    2. Click on Tools on the toolbar.

    3. Click on Internet Options.

    4. Click on Connections.

    5. Click on Lan settings.

    6. Make sure "Automatically Detect Settings" is unchecked.

    7. Click OK.

    8. Click OK again.

    Try to surf the net.

     

     

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    Posted November 30th, 2004 00:00

    Wayne:

    Thanks for the tip. I'll keep that one in my bag of tricks. Unfortunately, automatically detect settings was not checked. It's significantly improved since I made the first set of changes but has not entirely disappeared. I think I'm dealing with a second issue with my ISP that's compounding the problem.

    Thanks again for the response.

    Jeff

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