I have been searching endlessly for a fix to my wireless woes for weeks, and have come up with nada... Everything worked flawlessly for months, but now i can't get it to work consistently to save my life.
I can connect wirelessly to my Linksys AP with excellent signal strength, but can't connect out to the internet.
A good description of the problem I am having is found here:
Specifically, this part is (almost) exactly what my problem is:
"1. After the wireless card is enabled and connected to the AP it will not get an IP address (I can get an IP address, most of the time) nor will it be able to ping to the AP. The wireless connection properties will say that it is connected with good signal strength, it will also send packets but not receive any packets back."
Now, I've read thru that and countless other threads describing similar problems, and have tried pretty much everything, ranging from resets, static ip's, WEP, upgrading firmware, disabling XP Zero Config... you name it... At various times, I get it working, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason why. Sometimes its a reset of the router, other times its as simple as changing the channel or pinging the wireless computer from a wired. The only constant is that as soon as my wireless computer shuts down, or goes to sleep, I must do "something" to get my internet back. I have not been able to isolate what that "something" is that gets me back, tho, as it always seems to be something different.
The only thing I can say with any confidence, is that the problem is not my wireless adapter (also a Linksys, WUSB11 ver2.6). I am also reasonably sure that the computers are not causing the problem... have plugged my adapter into 4 different machines, 2 running XP, and 2 running 2K, and I have no problems at all connecting to other wireless AP's (even other Linksys AP's), only mine. Put 2 + 2 together, and I'm convinced the issue lies in the Linksys AP.
At the moment, I have everything in the AP set back to its factory defaults. No WEP, IP's auto-obtained, etc. etc. etc. Worked like a champ yesterday until the computer went to sleep for the night. Now I'm back to square one. Anybody have more ideas as to whats going on here? I'm basically at my wits end with this Linksys.
One note on disabling the XP Zero Config which has been mentioned often. I've done that, and while it doesn't seem to help me with this particular problem, it did solve another. (When it works) the wireless connection on the XP machine had 1-2 sec blips at regular intervals, where the connection was lost, and then reestablished. It was hardly even noticeable for surfing, but it always came out when I was dloading. Disabling the XP Zero Config totally did the trick on that one, for whatever that is worth.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice you have to offer.
-Curtis
I can connect wirelessly to my Linksys AP with excellent signal strength, but can't connect out to the internet.
A good description of the problem I am having is found here:
Specifically, this part is (almost) exactly what my problem is:
"1. After the wireless card is enabled and connected to the AP it will not get an IP address (I can get an IP address, most of the time) nor will it be able to ping to the AP. The wireless connection properties will say that it is connected with good signal strength, it will also send packets but not receive any packets back."
Now, I've read thru that and countless other threads describing similar problems, and have tried pretty much everything, ranging from resets, static ip's, WEP, upgrading firmware, disabling XP Zero Config... you name it... At various times, I get it working, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason why. Sometimes its a reset of the router, other times its as simple as changing the channel or pinging the wireless computer from a wired. The only constant is that as soon as my wireless computer shuts down, or goes to sleep, I must do "something" to get my internet back. I have not been able to isolate what that "something" is that gets me back, tho, as it always seems to be something different.
The only thing I can say with any confidence, is that the problem is not my wireless adapter (also a Linksys, WUSB11 ver2.6). I am also reasonably sure that the computers are not causing the problem... have plugged my adapter into 4 different machines, 2 running XP, and 2 running 2K, and I have no problems at all connecting to other wireless AP's (even other Linksys AP's), only mine. Put 2 + 2 together, and I'm convinced the issue lies in the Linksys AP.
At the moment, I have everything in the AP set back to its factory defaults. No WEP, IP's auto-obtained, etc. etc. etc. Worked like a champ yesterday until the computer went to sleep for the night. Now I'm back to square one. Anybody have more ideas as to whats going on here? I'm basically at my wits end with this Linksys.
One note on disabling the XP Zero Config which has been mentioned often. I've done that, and while it doesn't seem to help me with this particular problem, it did solve another. (When it works) the wireless connection on the XP machine had 1-2 sec blips at regular intervals, where the connection was lost, and then reestablished. It was hardly even noticeable for surfing, but it always came out when I was dloading. Disabling the XP Zero Config totally did the trick on that one, for whatever that is worth.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice you have to offer.
-Curtis
