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October 6th, 2004 11:00

Wireless Help - Excellent connection, no internet.

Sorry to be another one of the two million posts about this but, I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 5150. Everything was fine for awhile, then one day my internet started to get slow. It would take literary 5 minutes for a page to load and another 5 minutes for aim to connect. Well, As of today It takes atleast 15 minutes for the page to load and I cant even connect to aim.

My Wireless connection usually has a Good to Very Good connection. I have DHCP setup. And it is working fine. Receiving the IP of 172.22.1.100. I can ping websites fine. No requested timeouts. I can also use aim's configuration tool to find an open port so I can connect to them.

But either websites says "page has not been found" or takes literary 15 minutes too load. And aim takes about 5 minutes too load if I am lucky. Most of the time I cant even connect.

I know it is not a problem with my wireless router because We have 2 other computers connecting through wireless and they have no connectivity problems.

I have even reformated my HD and installed XP pro SP1. Yet I am still receiving the same problem. I have connected to the network at my work using ethernet and got amazing speeds. So Ive narrowed it down to the wireless acting up or My network malfunctioning, But i dont see how it is my network if 2 other computers are able to connect perfectly.

So this is my last resort, hopefully someone from here can help me.

 

Thanks in advance!!!

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October 6th, 2004 18:00

Actually I did, I am running XP Pro SP1.

As for the actual hardware, I didnt, It is a linksys router and Dell Wireless 1350 Internal Wireless (802.11b/g, 54Mbps) Mini-PCI card, i think. I guess I will have to try updating everything.

I dont see why updating the firmware on the router would make a difference if the rest of the computers on the network are having no problems.

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October 6th, 2004 18:00

I would make sure I had the latest router firmware and the latest wireless card driver.  You didn't state what equipment or OS you have.

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October 7th, 2004 00:00

Its a Truemobile thingy.  TM cards and other manufacturer equipment are touchy together.  Latest firmware for the router and latest driver for the 1350 should take care of it.  Sorry for missing the XP info.
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