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
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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