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Wireless PCI card will only hold connection for two seconds

by toekneep Jul 4, 2007 11:40PM PDT

This is driving me crazy. Edimax PCI wireless card in Acer desktop PC talking to Netgear WAP. Set it up in ten minutes and it worked fine for two months. Then the customer flattened the PC using the ACER cd and restored it to its factory set up. No problem, went out and set the wireless card up again but it connects to the access point for just one or two seconds and then drops it again. I have my laptop sitting next to it talking to the WAP no problem. I've replaced the PCI card but it behaves exactly the same. I've dropped Windows firewall to no avail and there is no other firewall software installed. If I ping the WAP with -t option it cycles through hardware error, destination host unreachable and no reply as the connection comes and goes. Any ideas?

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by ozos Jul 5, 2007 8:46PM PDT

Is the WAP setup with WPA, MAC filtering, NAT firewalls, and so on?

Is the system acquiring an IP and so on correctly, is it set to view the WAP as its primary DNS and gateway, etc?

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WPA and MAC setup
by toekneep Jul 8, 2007 6:27PM PDT

We are using WPA, no MAC filtering and IP's are fixed rather than using DHCP. My laptop is set up identically to the workstation (apart, obviously from the IP address) and it works fine. That is the reason the problem is so tricky. It doesn't seem like a problem with the WAP to me, rather with the workstation.

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"IP's are fixed rather than using DHCP"
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 8, 2007 10:54PM PDT

That's an expert's setup. I think whoever did this should fix it.

Here I've found that my generic setup works for our tech 100 percent of the time but we do run into experts and have to let them deal with it.

Bob

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Try it my way.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 5, 2007 9:16PM PDT
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