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Ethernet OK Wifi KOMy son's laptop is a Dell Inspiron 6400. XP SP2. Router is Netopia 3342.
Problem: when connected through Ethernet things are OK. When on wifi, the internet connection works for a short while and then goes dead (Firefox and IE alike). When he turns on and off the router and reboots the computer the same thing happens. any ideas? Daniel -- ------------------------- Daniel Royer University of Geneva daniel at royer dot ch Check the Authentication options in your wireless network adapter's settings
and make sure that you don't have 802.1x authentication enabled. You'll find this by opening the Network Connections icon in Control Panel, right-clicking your wireless adapter there, selecting Properties, then the Authentication tab. -- Show quoteHide quoteRichard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rghar***@gmail.com * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Daniel Royer" <dan***@royer.ch> wrote in message news:44ebf771$1@nntp.unige.ch... > My son's laptop is a Dell Inspiron 6400. XP SP2. Router is Netopia 3342. > Problem: when connected through Ethernet things are OK. When on wifi, the > internet connection works for a short while and then goes dead (Firefox > and IE alike). When he turns on and off the router and reboots the > computer the same thing happens. > > any ideas? > > Daniel > -- > ------------------------- > Daniel Royer > University of Geneva > daniel at royer dot ch * Richard G. Harper wrote, On 23/08/2006 11:46:
> Check the Authentication options in your wireless network adapter's settings Thanks Richard. Will do!> and make sure that you don't have 802.1x authentication enabled. You'll > find this by opening the Network Connections icon in Control Panel, > right-clicking your wireless adapter there, selecting Properties, then the > Authentication tab. > Daniel -- ------------------------- Daniel Royer University of Geneva daniel at royer dot ch It is possible you have the same problem as me (see next post). It is
unlikely to be authentication because, if it was, the 802.11 connection would not work at all. After it fails enter ipconfig /all at the command prompt. You should see your WIFI connection and the wired connection. If the WIFI connection looks strange as in no IP address or you have TWO WIFI connections you have the problem I had. I suspect this is an undocumented feature of the Microsoft TCP/IP implementation, hope I'm wrong. Regards Show quoteHide quote "Daniel Royer" wrote: > My son's laptop is a Dell Inspiron 6400. XP SP2. Router is Netopia 3342. > Problem: when connected through Ethernet things are OK. When on wifi, > the internet connection works for a short while and then goes dead > (Firefox and IE alike). When he turns on and off the router and reboots > the computer the same thing happens. > > any ideas? > > Daniel > -- > ------------------------- > Daniel Royer > University of Geneva > daniel at royer dot ch > 
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