on my network i experience a complete loss of signal a few times an hour, for about 1-3 seconds duration. usually it resolves itself, with the signal strength going from excellent to unavailable back to excellent, but sometimes i have to go into the properties and force a refresh for the network to become visible again. this affects both of my notebooks (fujitsu p2120 and compaq x1000, both with integrated wi-fi nics) at the same time, regardless of the distance from the antenna (about 10 feet unobstructed, hawking external high gain directional antenna). router is a d-link mr514. we *do* have seimens 2.4 ghz phones, but we took the batteries out of all of them and unplugged the power from the base station, stil without a noticeable difference. i don't want to throw more money at the problem blindly. any thoughts?
frequent wireless drops
- Thread starter dolph
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yes. and notebooks work fine in other wireless networks, too. also doesn't matter if they're plugged in or not
Guess what, I have the same exact problem with my D-link 614. Since our routers use a different chipset, It must be related with D-link's firmware.
I've had the same problems before. Changing the channel on the wireless router took care of it!
Worth a shot!
Worth a shot!
I had teh DLink 514 and I had the same problem except the drop would be from 1-3 minutes. I swore it was the USB NIC, but once I swapped the Router out for a Netgeat Wireless router, problem stopped. I've also read mucho complaints over at DSL Reports forums about the DLink routers. My advise, stay away from them.
I had this problem over the summer... turned out to be because the router was overheating.
just something to check on
just something to check on
I've heard that disabling the Wireless Zero Configuration Service is supposed to fix it, but what I didn't know until today is that you have to enable the service long enough to connect to the access point, then disable it once it's connected.
I tried that, and it works beautifully.
Turns out the service is there to check periodically for a better network/signal to connect to, and in most cases doesn't find one so it goes back to the one it was using. Turning it off once it's connected will let it just be happy with what it has.
I tried that, and it works beautifully.
Turns out the service is there to check periodically for a better network/signal to connect to, and in most cases doesn't find one so it goes back to the one it was using. Turning it off once it's connected will let it just be happy with what it has.
Where can I access the "Wireless Zero Configuration Service" or "Enable IEEE 802.1x Authentication for this network." ?
tia
tia
Go to your connection in "Network Connections". All the options should be under "view availible wireless networks". Then maybe under advanced ?
If 'advanced' is greyed out then you're probably not using WEP and IEEE 802.1x Authentication doesn't apply.
For the Wireless Zero Configuration Service, go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services and scroll down to the bottom. It should be about the third one up. Set that to manual, and once you're connected you can stop the service.
For the Wireless Zero Configuration Service, go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services and scroll down to the bottom. It should be about the third one up. Set that to manual, and once you're connected you can stop the service.
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