Weird Wireless Problem

[felix001]

Yesterday I encountered a really strange problem with my wireless network which I cant seem to put my finger on.

I have 2 machines connected via wifi using WPA2. XP Pro and Vista.
Vista suddendly couldnt see any networks, I couldnt see any issues on the syste, so I run a repair on the network interface and this resolved the issue.
But also my XP machine even though it said it wasnt connected to any network, was still connected and was able to get out to the internet. I rebooted and run a repair which also resolved the issue.
All is fine to terms of them now working, but I been trying to figure out what happened.
Ibeen looking through the logs without my success and due to this happening on both machines i was wondering if it is something more to do with my wi-fi access point , even though ive checked this and this seems fine as well.....

Has anyone any ideas on this... ??

 

[linney]

Not much more than you can do but monitor the situation to see if some pattern develops. Hopefully just one of those strange glitches that we all encounter from time to time.

Have a look at this article anyway, it might give you one or two thoughts.

"Turbulence In The Ether"

http://windowssecrets.com/L060403-03-Turbulence-In-The-Ether

 

[felix001]

Thanks for your reply, and I have to agree.
Nice article by the way.

The interesting part of this is that the problem remained after a reboot, but was resolved via the repair option.
Im wondering what the repair actually does.....??

 

[linney]

I assume it rebuilds the Winsock Stack, other may know the actual "ins and outs"?


This XP article may give some insight as to what is happening via Vista's Network Repair, of course it could be a completely different process in Vista, I guess I don't worry too much about the "How's" as long as it works.

"These type of issues may occur if the Winsock registry keys are damaged or corrupted".



How to determine and recover from Winsock2 corruption

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259/#appliesto