limited access after resume; WPA-2 not working

lefenzy

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The home network I have depends on a D-link DI-624 router which is running the latest firmware. Lately I've been experiencing problems with my wireless connections. I recently bought a new laptop, a thinkpad T400 (windows vista) with Intel 5300 AGN wireless card. Using WPA authentication, my laptop can connect to the access point no problem. Whenever I resume from hibernation or sleep however, I have internet for a short while (which varies) and then my connection drops into a "limited access" type of connectivity that limits me to the local network only and not the internet. That's the primary issue that has given me problems since my laptop was delivered and I have not solved it.

The next problem is that I tried WPA2 authentication with the router in hopes of perhaps fixing the limited connectivity issue. Now this is very weird. The first night I tried it, the router reset and then I connected with my laptop with WPA2. It was perfect; I could suspend and hibernate and resume with no problems. But a day or two later after a night with the laptop shutdown I no longer could connect to the router using WPA2. WPA still works with the resuming issue but with WPA2, it seems like the router refuses my connection. The dialog box on my computer says it's connecting and I put in the all the correct settings but after a short while the dialog box reads windows could not connect.

There is an additional laptop running windows xp that depends on the wireless connection. All other computers at home use wired Ethernet.

I don't know what exactly the issue is nor how to solve it. This has been frustrating me for a few weeks now.
 

spidey07

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Most likely a patch or driver problem. Are you using windows built in wireless or the intel client utility? Switching to the intel client should fix all of it.
 

lefenzy

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What is the intel client utility? I couldn't find it on the intel website.