I just want to listen to the radio.....

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Can somebody give me any idea what might be causing me so much aggravation? I just want to listen to the radio over the internet. I have a Dell Dimension running Win98SE and a Linksys wireless pci card that Dell sold me. We have a Dell Truemobile 1170 that is hooked up to a DSL line. I am unable to stream audio from the internet. I have tried Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, MusicMatch Jukebox and a number of individual websites. The audio will start to play and then cut out, reconnect, cutout, reconnect, etc. It never runs for more than about 20 seconds before it fritzes out. I have no trouble listening to CDs and other audio stuff, so I know the problem isn't with the sound card. And I just used my husband's laptop (running Windows XP), which is sharing the DSL connection through the Truemobile. It's been listening to the radio for over 2 hours now without as much as a hiccup, so I know the problem isn't 'internet congestion.' Besides, I've tested the problem at all hours of the day and night, and with the laptop turned off to make sure that I'm not getting any extra traffic through the base station. I also unplugged the Truemobile and used my 56k dial-up modem and it works just fine. The problem seems to have something to do with the wireless network setup. I've never had any other problems with the home network. We share files and a printer, and of course the internet connection. Everything works fine except for this one thing. Can anybody help????

jimmy99208 · Answer

Here's some good info. http://www.tipsdr.com/wireless-networking.html

tessgold · Answer

Thanks Jimmy, there's a lot of information there, but I'll read it all. I talked to a Dell supervisor today who said it sounds like there is a software conflict somewhere (no big surprise there), and it might be easier to reinstall the operating system than try to figure out where it is. I'm not sure that I have that much time or energy, but he might be right.

jwatt · Answer

I have a Dell Dimension running Win98SE and a Linksys wireless pci card that Dell sold me. We have a Dell Truemobile 1170 that is hooked up to a DSL line.

In case there's a problem with resources on the PCI bus, you might want to try moving the Linksys card to a different PCI slot.

Jim

tessgold · Answer

Jim, Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I've run out of slots. Can you take a look here and see if it looks like I'm right? http://tess.home.netcom.com/irq.htm

jwatt · Answer

The IRQ settings table looks OK, but that doesn't mean there aren't available PCI slots on the motherboard that you could try moving the wireless adapter to. You'll have to open the machine up to find that out.

You might also want to try "Reset Configuration Data" in the BIOS, under advanced CMOS settings. I think that's the correct way to do that for your machine, but the reset method depends on the specific model.

Do you have the most current BIOS installed?

(edit - Clarified physical board location versus IRQ settings.)

Jim

Message Edited by jimw on 05-15-2004 11:49 PM

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