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sirshambling
12-19-2005, 11:41 AM
I'm sure you're tired of wireless connection drop-out problems but despite searching through the posts and the Troubleshooting advice here I can't find anything relating to my particular problem.

I have a laptop and a PC connected wirelessly via a Belkin PreN Router (configured as a WAP) and a PC connected via Cat 5 to an ADSL router.

The internet connection works flawlessly for all the computers but the various clients keep "disappearing" from the network. Files are available to share one minute but not the next - with error messages saying that "accesss has been denied" the next. Pinging the clients works - or it doesn't. Sometimes all pings will work, sometimes one or two, sometimes none at all.

The longest time the network has been up without a failure is about 10 minutes - and it can take up to 5 minutes for the PC to become visible again.

I've tried all the usual IP address, subnet mask, workgroup name and WPA encryption testing. All seem fine.

Is there anything that anybody can suggest?

TIA. John.

keewaa
12-19-2005, 11:44 AM
Log into the router interface, and enable SSID broadcast. This can be a common problem if another network within range is interfering with WZC. If this fixes it, then enable WPA security to keep your network safe.

After trying this, if it doesn't work, do you also experience problems with wired connections as well? If so log into the router interface and change the MTU to 1400 and see if this fixes it.

sirshambling
12-20-2005, 10:59 AM
Thanks Keewaa for responding to my problem.

I've gone back and checked and SSID broadcast is on. Trying without WPA encryption makes no difference - still these really annoying LAN drop-outs.

Going back to a wired network works flawlessly - no drop-outs at all.

So I guess this must be a wireless issue.

Any further thoughts I could try?

TIA again. John.

Greenstead
12-20-2005, 12:19 PM
These sort of dropouts usually have one of two causes:
1. Wireless card / AP firmware and/or drivers out of date -> get latest from website.
2. Running XP SP1 -> get SP2.