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My pc is unable to maintain a connection to my wireless network. It also
seems to be random. Sometimes the icon shows a good connection but it is not
possible to connect to the internet. Repairing does not work - sometimes it
is unable to acquire an IP address. The only thing that always works, is
restarting the pc. This is not something we want to be doing several times a
day. Today I have changed over to Windows XP managing our Netgear wireless
adaptor, rather than Netgear's own software. This resulted is even more
connection drops, although several times I was able to reconnect by
rightclicking the icon, choosing view available networks, clicking ours, then
connect and it did!! However, not always.
We have Windows XP with SP2 downloaded with no problems several weeks before
installing the wireless adaptor. Our router is an Apple Airport Extreme Base
Station which is working flawlessly with my iBook - has never dropped the
connection since setting up the network four weeks ago.
I am assuming this is a software issue, and believe that Microsoft is going
to provide a fix in the next Service Pack (from the support web site). Is
this correct, and when can we expect to see a fix?
Thanks for reading this lengthy post.
My pc is unable to maintain a connection to my wireless network. It also
seems to be random. Sometimes the icon shows a good connection but it is not
possible to connect to the internet. Repairing does not work - sometimes it
is unable to acquire an IP address. The only thing that always works, is
restarting the pc. This is not something we want to be doing several times a
day. Today I have changed over to Windows XP managing our Netgear wireless
adaptor, rather than Netgear's own software. This resulted is even more
connection drops, although several times I was able to reconnect by
rightclicking the icon, choosing view available networks, clicking ours, then
connect and it did!! However, not always.
We have Windows XP with SP2 downloaded with no problems several weeks before
installing the wireless adaptor. Our router is an Apple Airport Extreme Base
Station which is working flawlessly with my iBook - has never dropped the
connection since setting up the network four weeks ago.
I am assuming this is a software issue, and believe that Microsoft is going
to provide a fix in the next Service Pack (from the support web site). Is
this correct, and when can we expect to see a fix?
Thanks for reading this lengthy post.