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Problem with wireless network, I keep getting booted

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DGath

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A friend of mine is having problems with his new wireless setup. He's using a Netgear 802.11B router and connecting with an SMC (I think?) wireless card for his laptop. The problem is he keeps getting disconnected, and he has to manually go back in and reconnect. Once he does that he'll be connected for anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes, then be booted again, and have to manually reconnect. Any idea why that is happening? The router signal strength varies from excellent to poor, but the router is in the bedroom right above him. I'm relatively new to the wireless world so I'm not quite sure what could be causing this. He has used his laptop over at his girlfriend's who has a linksys wireless router and it works fine. And even if it does disconnect him it picks him back up automatically.

Also, security wise he has it just set up to only allow his MAC, but he doesn't have encrytion turned on. Is that ok or does he need to have the encryption turned on to make his network secure? He doesn't really care if there is the remote possibility that someone in a neighboring house could see what websites he is getting on just as long as they aren't using his internet service.

Thanks
 
Well there were a couple of replies in here, but for whatever reason they have dissapeared since yesterday.

I think we've decided to go ahead and just buy a linksys wireless router since his card works with that router much better, but he'd prefer to try to get this one working.

So here is a bump to see if anyone can figure out why he keeps getting disconnected then has to manually reconnect in order to restore internet service. And also why it auto reconnects him on his girlfriends Linksys, but his Netgear won't.
 
K, got it working. Rather than using the SMC card manager software that came with the card to configure the network settings, I just checked the "Let Windows configure my settings" box in the wireless connection settings window. That seems to have taken care of the problem as it will now automatically reconnect when it gets disconnected.
 
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