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losing packets - wirelessly

Mar 27, 2005 9:25AM PST

I have 3 machines.....2 laptops and a tower....
all connected to a router (wireless-g linksys)(the pc is hard wired ....the laptops are wireless)

one laptop however, does not want to connect to the internet...the card appears to be working fine(as per system tray icon)......sometimes it will connect at first....then i try somewhere else and nothing....cannot find server..blah blah....

the laptop is running xp updated as far as i can tell up to date.....the other lan connections are disabled....thats all the info I can think about right now........any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
thanks....!!

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Absolutely!!!
Mar 27, 2005 9:45AM PST

You will lose them and love it. The protocol is built to retry and get it again.

As to the body of your post, that is another subject. It's quite common when WEP is enabled and the card isn't quite compatible with your router. Too bad you write blah and not the details.

Bob

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well, i'm very
Mar 27, 2005 10:28PM PST

sorry i wasn't so specific bob.
what info would you like me to give?
I'm not with the laptop in question right now....however, since i last posted i tried again, now it is not recieving packets...i get the cannot find server page....the card was definatly compatable...it came as a set with the router.....

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You want to know...
Mar 27, 2005 11:42PM PST

I got such a set and the pair didn't work together with WEP enabled. The call was made and the answer was "Oh, did you update the firmware and drivers?"

The number of products that are not working out of the box is simply amazing.

As you being specific, that would be nice to at least follow the forum tip. Also, the subject title of your post and the content would be nice if it matched. There is a big discussion about lost packets over wireless, but that's not what we are discussing.

Bob

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thanks
Mar 28, 2005 8:33PM PST

thanks for you help bob...i'll look into things a little more and try to be a little more specific next time i post......sorry for my newbiness, but hey, we all gotta start somewhere.....right?

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Yes... we do.
Mar 28, 2005 8:37PM PST

I hope your issue is the usual. I'm not happy with the current state of affairs where you buy a device and have to update the firmware to make it work.

Just sharing I returned one digital camera over this. They wanted me to update the camera firmware and the supplied CD was buggy. It only would download 16 pictures at a time. That was some 16 megabyte download alone. "No, it's a camera." was my response and returned it...

Thanks for letting me share.

Bob