Wireless goes off after a while

See if the following helps:

 

http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/cs-006205.htm

 

Steve

Thanks a ton Steve. I did the fix of putting the power management to maximum. But I don't think it helped. I actually ran ipcofig /all and dumped the result. I'm appending the result -- if that helps.

 

 

Windows IP Configuration

 

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : bk118

        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :

        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

 

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

 

        Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller

        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-14-22-DD-60-EA

 

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:

 

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-CE-52-9F-C4

        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100

        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::213:ceff:fe52:9fc4%5

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.1

                                            fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1

                                            fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1

                                            fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1

        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, June 18, 2007 7:57:09 PM

        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:57:09 PM

 

Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

 

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-17-3A-B8-1E-E4-5D

        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4136:e390:0:173a:b81e:e45d

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::ffff:ffff:fffd%6

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::

        NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

 

Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

 

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : C0-A8-01-64

        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5efe:192.168.1.100%2

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1

                                            fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1

                                            fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1

        NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

 

Is there some reason you need to have IPv6 installed and running on your computer?  If not, try removing IPv6 and see if that solves the problem.

 

Steve

Well. I have not installed anything. I did a system restore the other day because I hit the 'Blue' screen and the windows won't load. So nothing except what Dell's restore utility does has gone into it.

Saying that.. I installed Windows XP yesterday from the OEM discs that Dell forwarded to me and loaded the drivers from the dell disk. Automatic upgrade - turned off & no new drivers has been installed except for the ones in the disk. I connected to my wireless and got a non-stop / error free connection for more than 2 hrs. The ping was perfect the webpages were downloading fast and looked like I the old horse is kicking. I turned it on again this morning and again the speed is excellent no drop - perfect ping. And I checked couple of time the Green light of the wireless was not showing even if the taskbar icon showing Excellent 54MBPS connection.

 

That gets me thinking what is it that was causing the problem. Is it the wireless driver or Windows Update. Any clue?

 

Thanks