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November 7th, 2005 03:00

Wireless Keeps Disconnecting

OKAY - PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!

I have been pulling my hair trying to figure out why my Dell Inspiron 1150 keeps disconnecting from the Internet while I am at home. Here is a rundown of what I am encountering:

- The Dell has a built-in Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card with the newest drivers (just updated today).
- My router is a NetGearWGR614v3 with the newest firmware (just updated yesterday).
- I have tried factory resetting the router and this has not helped.
- I am using WEP.
- I have another Compaq laptop and it never disconnects or crashes the router.
- Any time I go to a busy webpage (like buy.com) - something crashes my router. This only happens with busy webpages with lots of graphics, etc. - which is totally weird and makes no sense to me - but, it does not happen on light pages like Google or with searches, etc. Essentially when this happens I HAVE to unplug and plug back in the router to get it to re-set and re-connect. There seems to be some type of conflict with my laptop and the router, but I have no clue what. This never "used" to happen and just started about a month ago and I have not added any new programs or changed any settings that I can recall. I have had the router for over 2 years with no issues until now with no setting changes.
- I have tried disabling Windows Zero Config and I have tried enabling it - nothing works.

One more note - if I connect directly to the wireless router with a ethernet cable it works fine and I don't have any issues.

PLEASE HELP ME because this is driving me absolutely MAD! :) Thanks, in advance!

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December 9th, 2005 16:00

 it is a bug in xp service pack 2 the fix is simple but a bit obscure even if you have disabled the windows firewall go start then control pannel windows firewall advanced untick the wi-fi option restart your computer problem fixed from Gary sales@thurcastonwebsites.com

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December 9th, 2005 17:00

I am confused how this could be the issue.  Can you please assist further.
 
When I go where you describe and attempt to "untick" the connection it does not work and pops-up another screen that has no options to remove this.  See below.
 
 
Any help is much appreciated.  Thanks!
 
Don

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December 9th, 2005 22:00

Just untick the wireless connection 3 box.

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December 10th, 2005 19:00

It is "greyed-out" and does not allow it to be unchecked.  Other ideas.
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