Problems with Wireless Adapter

[daw123]

Hello guys and girls,

I am having the following problem with my brand new USB wireless adapter. It randomly disconnects from the router and when I click repair in Window's Network Connection Status it always re-connects immediately.
The router is a Belkin N 150 wireless router (1 month old).
The adapter is a USB Belkin N 150 wireless adapter (1 week old).
The modem is the generic one you get from Virgin Media (cable modem), which is about 6 months old.
We use WEP and the network key is entered correctly and I have unchecked the authentication option in Window's Network Authentication properties.

We currently have 5 PCs connected to it as well as an IPhone, a XBox and a wireless printer.

The new adapter replaced a BT Voyager 1040 PCI card, which died on me. I went USB to free up a PCI slot, for the new rig I'm about to build in a weeks time. My old wireless card did not have this problem.

Any ideas what could be causing this? Or should I wait until the new rig is built and see if I have the same problem.

Thanks for reading this.

Edit: This problem occurs every couple of hours and its becoming very annoying.

 

[Atheus]

Drivers? Try the website and see if there's any new downloads. Also clean the drivers for the old card off the machine.

 

[daw123]

I checked the Belkin website and the only drivers they have are the ones, which are shipped in the box with the adapter, which I installed.

I have checked Device Manager (and Add/Remove Programs) and I can't see the drivers for the old adapter (BT Voyager 1040) and I know that I uninstalled it before installing the drivers for the new Belkin adapter.

The only things I can think to try are:
1. Check the Reigstry to see if the BT Voyager 1040 drivers are still there (I don't know how to do this - perhaps someone could give me some direction on how this is done)
2. Uninstall the new drivers and re-install them.
3. Check the program directory on the C:\ for any remanants of the BT Voyager 1040.
4. Go to PC World and ask for a replacement adapter.

Note that no one else in the house are having these connections issues, so it isn't the wireless router.

 

[daw123]

Went back to PC World, told them about the problem I'm having with adapter and they did a like-for-like replacement.

So far, I've being using this for over 6 hours and I haven't lost the wireless connection. Since, the older adapter lost the connection every couple of hours and this one new hasn't, this seems to suggest that it was a faulty adapter.#

Any way, thanks for the help, Atheus.

 

[daw123]

New adapter is exhibiting the same problems; it will randomly disconnect from the wireless router.

I realised that this problem is something to do with being assigned a dynamic IP address. I assigned myself a static IP address and I've now been connected 24hours plus without incident.