Wireless connection on and off 1

[Yerdon]

Hi,

Does anybody have an idea of what could be happening with my wireless connection? It appears and disappears randomly...

I have a LinkSys 2.4 Broadband Router which I use for my Cable internet connection. My computer, which is connected to it through a cable, works fine. But my laptop, running XP is going crazy.

It will connect and say that the connection is "Excellent". Then, a couple minutes later it will disconnect and connect to a different connection (I live in an appartment building and there are a lot of them). At that time, if I try to connect back to mine, it has disappeared! But, a few minutes later it finds it automaticaly and connects to it fine!

Argh! Any help would be greatly appreciated. This just started happening recently - before I had used it for months while it was running fine.

Thanks!

Joseph

 

[vipergg]

Aren't running XP SP2 are you ? This has caused many problems with wireless access .

 

[Yerdon]

No. Running SP1. And the problem is intermitant. Any other thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[vipergg]

Well off the top of my head the only thing would be to make sure the AP or your laptop is not near a cordless phone or microwave these can sometimes cause interference or someone else who lives near you might have wireless running on the same channel , try changing the channel on the AP and your nic .

 

[bcastner]

. Test with WEP disabled, if using WEP. A bad key entry can do this;

. The most common cause: the option to use 802.1x authentication is checkmarked for the network adapter settings.

 

[shelby55]

A big star for you bcastner!!!! For no reason my internet connection and e-mail cut out, however dial up worked so I knew it wasn't my provider. I'm been on the computer for 4 hours now trying to find the answers to this problem and voila, your comments about the option to use 802.1x authentication is what my problem was!!

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!