[MLB-WIRELESS] wireless drops out in XP every 5 minutes

[Callan Browne]

I have a Compaq NX5000 centrino notebook, which is just over a month old
and used to get dropouts all the time. (AP - D-Link 900AP+ on loan)

I set the transmit power to 100%, instead of AUTO in the Intel Proset
software, and it has been fine since.

Hope this helps


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au [mailto:owner-
> melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Michael Tomlinson
> Sent: Sunday, 25 July 2004 6:15 PM
> To: Melbourne Wireless
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] wireless drops out in XP every 5 minutes
> 
> Hey all ; at my wits end with this.
> 
> I have a Netgear WGT624 access point / router (802.11g, set to 'b
> only'), and an HP Compaq laptop with an Intel 802.11b card built in.
> 
> I'm using 128-bit WEP and have MAC address filtering enabled.
> 
> All of the drivers and firmware are up to date, and I've tried both
the
> Intel utilities and the built-in XP utilities for managing the
wireless
> card, but no luck.
> 
> Basically it connects fine, but then I lose the connection after 5
minutes.
> 
> I've tried changing channels, but I don't think this is an RF issue ;
it
> happens even if the laptop is on top of the base station, and I'm
> getting good signal strength.
> 
> I've read about several things in XP which can cause this to happen,
but
> I've tried most of them.
> 
> I've disabled the 'wireless zero configuration' service ; I've checked
> for some of the recent hotfixes that people have had trouble with ;
I've
> disabled 802.1x authentication ; nothing seems to help.
> 
> There's nothing in the router than looks like it could cause the type
of
> problem ; it's not the dhcp lease expiring.
> 
> Any other ideas???
> 
> thanks,
> Michael
> 
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