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Wireless connection keeps disconecting

Apr 7, 2005 10:17AM PDT

I have
(1) A netgear wireless DG834G router
(2) A PC with a D-Link PCI card
(3) A laptop with Intel(R) PRO/wireless 2200BG Network connection
(4) Broadband connection
(5) Both PC and LAPTOP are running Windows XP Pro

I can configure them all to connect and it works fine.

The problem is that the wireless connection disconnects after a short time and I can't find out why.? I can connect with a LAN cable and that is OK

I have tried to configure the wireless connection manually OR using Windows networking setup but both ways I get the same problem.

Using Windows to search for the wireless network connections after it has dropped fails to find the network but if I leave it a while or switch the system off and come back later the network connection becomes available!

After reconnection there is sometimes a drastic drop in the connection speed - down to 24 Mbps which is not much better than a dial up connection.

I am almost certain that the problem is with the router but can find no help about the problem at Netgears web site!

I think I have seen somewhere that there is a conflict in Windows XP that might cause this problem but can find no info about it.

Can anyone help? Its driving me round the bend??

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(NT) (NT) Can you disable Wireless Zero Config and try again?
Apr 7, 2005 11:00AM PDT
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tried to disable....
Apr 8, 2005 7:12PM PDT

already tried that but then I have no connection at all.

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Too few details.
Apr 9, 2005 12:09AM PDT

Sorry. The units I've worked on have never require zero config. Here's a link about zero config.

"This document describes the reasons for wireless connection loss after windows update in windows xp machine and the ways to overcome it."
-> http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=582449

That should give you enough information to try some other methods.

Bob