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September 5th, 2007 19:00

Wireless Keeps Dropping Out

Hi All,
hopefully someone has an idea of what is wrong so here goes.
I have a D505 but the wireless occasionally drops out, it re-connects immediatley but it does it a few times a day. There is no pattern to it and it is only the D505 affected because my Playstation 3 has no issues at all.
I have the laptop on my home network and the other problem is that if I try to transfer files from my desktop to my laptop the wireless drops out immediatley every time.
Anyone have any clue's.
The wireless card is an Intel® Pro MiniPCI if that helps.
Cheers
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    Posted September 5th, 2007 19:00

    in device manager you can tweak your intel card. like set the channel to your router channel and so on. could be one of these setting are giving you a problem.
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    Posted September 5th, 2007 19:00

    do you have the latest drivers for that card?
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    Posted September 5th, 2007 19:00

    Yes I have all the latest drivers, I did a full format and reinstallation when I bought it and got all the latest drivers from the dell website.
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    Posted September 5th, 2007 20:00

    I didnt know there was a setting program for the adapter, but I've tried adjusting the settings and its still the same. I'm guessing the wireless card needs changing.
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    Posted September 5th, 2007 23:00

    I had the same problem on xp and I matched the channel to the router and I think what fixed the drops was changing the aggresive roaming to low.
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    Posted September 8th, 2007 16:00

    The model of the card is an INTEL PRO/WIRELESS 2100 WLAN.
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    Posted September 8th, 2007 17:00

    did you try my suggestion?
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    Posted September 8th, 2007 17:00

    Hi Boppo, sorry I didn't reply, yes I did try what you suggested except I cant find any setting to do with aggressive roaming. Still the same problem though.
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    Posted September 8th, 2007 19:00

    in device manager under network adapters you should see your card. Double click on it and then click on advanced and find roaming aggresiveness and change it to low.
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    Posted September 9th, 2007 17:00

    I tried that, the setting isn't there.

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