Vista - regularly losing wireless connectivity

[Stern]

Hi, I'm using windows vista ultimate x64 SP1 on a gateway laptop with a Realtek RTL8187S Wireless LAN PCI Adapter. My router is a WRT54GL running 4.30.11 firmware. Vista regularly seems to -forget- the wireless key (or something like that) of the network, I'm downloading something, watching a movie or playing a game, then I alt+tab back to desktop, and notice that Vista is reporting "Local Only" on my wireless connection. I try to disconnect and reconnect, it says the wireless key is wrong, I re-enter the key and it reconnects properly. This only works for WPA though, WPA2 doesn't reconnect and I need to lower the security setting to WPA to make it work. Does anybody know if this is a common problem, or if there is a fix? It is getting really irritating. It happens more when using WPA2 than WPA.

Thanks for -any- help.

Stern

 

[boomerang]

Check out this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233 Specifically the regedit under More Information at the bottom.

I had similar problems on 64-bit but I was hard wired. It was with the same router, but I consider that to be a coincidence.

Otherwise, I would see if there is a firmware upgrade for the router and flash to it.

What happens if you hard wire to the router?

There's a Networking forum that may be a better choice. Far smarter people than myself in there.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

try turning off vista's power saving, or reduce it to 'maximum performance'. Do a similar thing under the driver configuration for the card.

 

[Stern]

I always do that, I really dislike screen savers and sleep and hibernation and all those features. If I want my computer to be on and my monitor not, I'll turn off the monitor. That's what the switch is for