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Solve : wireless connection on laptop sparadic? |
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Answer» http://I have a dell insperion laptop,Pentium three, 1.2 GHZ with 512 GB of ram, windows XP Pro installed, a Linksys wireless G router on a high speed cable internet connection. The laptop has an internal Dell 1150 series LAN mini card.Up until recently, the wireless was operating perfectly. Now the wireless connection is sporadic, sometimes it connects, sometimes it will not. It is on a secured network with a few other computers at my home, two desktops that are wired, and a desktop that is wireless. The wireless desktop has no problem connecting and is able to see all other available wireless NETWORKS in range(I live in a condominium). I am thinking that the wireless internal mini card is defective but would appreciate any feedback. I rebuilt this laptop about two years ago after the previous owner spilled a cup of coffee in the keyboard, it fried the motherboard and one other printed board. It has worked great ever since until now.Thanks, VinceDoes the laptop work OK with a wired connection to the router? Can you give a bit more info about what happens when the laptop doesn't connect. Does it drop the connection whilst you are online, does it not connect when you boot up, if so, is it fixed by a reboot?It sounds as though you've PRETTY much diagnosed the problem (if your wireless desktop has no problems connecting) and you've moved the location of your laptop to different places at home with the same results. One thing you MIGHT try is disabling your security for just a testing period time and see if that makes a difference. If not, re-enable and get a PCMCIA nic. Alan <>< I had something like this happen to a Dell laptop one time and it was right after a driver update for the WLAN card was put on. It took me forever to figure it out, but the encryption method I was using just WOULD NOT work with the new driver. For a test I would try temporarily turning off the encryption completely and see if you still are dropping the connection. I ended up changing the encryption method from WPA using the AES algorithm to WPA using the TKIP algorithm. You aren't by any chance using a WRT54GX2 router are you? |
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