general lost connection grief

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Hi,

ot hoping for the moon on a stick nut any comments would be appreciated.

I am running Windows XP Pro on an Acer laptop with a Centrino processor.
I am connecting to a WAG54G router/modem/WAP.

I have had various degrees of success with my connection. The connection
has been dropping occasionally requiring a reboot of the laptop. I've
also experienced connection lost with the WAG54G just stopping to
receive/transmit.

My current situation is that Windows XP reports that the connection is
excellent but I am unable to browse the net or oing any addresses. My
connection just times out.

When I am epxeriencing this on my home laptop I have brought home my
work laptop (which has a Linksys PMCIA card) and have managed to get an
internet connection almost immediately.

Previously I have tried to stop using Windows to connect to my router. I
used the Intel ProSet (?) software which connects fine but I couldn't
figure out how to get it to work when I switched from one user to
another. My connection would be lost when i switched to another user and
I was unable to configure the software to run vbecause it complained
that another user was using it.

I have new firmware from Linksys and am toying with moving to SP2. Is
there anything else that I should try doing? Does windows cache any info
from old connections?

WRT, to other networks, I have used NetStumbler to scan the area and
there are a couple of weaker signals nearby but Windows generally won't
find these.

ta, Dan.