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More info?)
Thanks Barb
Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows] wrote:
|| 2.4GHz cordless phones use the same wireless band as 802.11b/g
|| wireless and can indeed cause interference and drops.
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|| On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:30:44 GMT, "Maxx" <maxx@themaxx.canada> wrote:
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||| I had the problem with the latest firmware, tried the free one from
||| Sveasoft as well. No difference apart from the features. I also
||| have all latest patches, drivers and tried the registry change
||| suggested in the forum thread. After reading David McKinnon posts,
||| I have to say that my problem is not exactly as his. I get longer
||| uptime them him. I can stay connected for hours and then bang! I
||| get the "absent key" thing. Now to be honest, I'm thinking that it
||| may be something in the house, or at my neighbours, since I never
||| have problem at work or elsewhere. Also, in my adventure, I tried
||| the MN-700 from Microsoft and had the same problem. I sold it to a
||| friend and she never has this problem.
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||| What bugs me to no end is: How is it possible for my card to see an
||| excellent connection but not been able to give me an IP or let me
||| use the internet? Could a cordless phone create that problem? I
||| mean, would my signal just drop, instead of still showing up as
||| Very Good or something?
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||| Also, sometimes, when the "key absent" persist, it will finally end
||| up loosing the connection completely. At that moment, if I use
||| Windows to search for WiFi, it finds nothing. But Netstumpler will
||| see it and report it as using wep and been on the correct channel...
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||| Thanks very much for all your help.
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||| Maxx
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||| Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows] wrote:
||||| What firmware is in the WRT54G and what is the rekey interval set
||||| to? See THIS thread:
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http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10448107~mode=flat and see
||||| if that helps.
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||||| On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:20:21 GMT, "Maxx" <maxx@themaxx.canada>
||||| wrote:
|||||
|||||| No, none of these options are available/enable
|||||| Thanks
||||||
|||||| Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows] wrote:
|||||||| Are you trying to use any of the performance
|||||||| doubling/boosting/frame bursting features?
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|||||||| On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:57:35 -0400, "Maxx"
|||||||| <maxx@themaxx.canada> wrote:
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||||||||| I have the exact same problem. WRT54G and a Broadcom
||||||||| Maxperformance 54G built-in my R3000 Compaq laptop. When it
||||||||| happens, I can see my connection as Verry Good or Excellent
||||||||| and at 54Mbps. but if I use the card util to see the status,
||||||||| I see "key absent" and only when the "key absent" disepear
||||||||| that my connection will come back to life. It happens on a
||||||||| random basis and can last for 10 seconds up to many minutes.
||||||||| I can be a day without it happening and 2 days with
||||||||| disconnection al the time...
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||||||||| Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows] wrote:
||||||||||| You don't want to (you can't) disable 802.1x for WPA-PSK.
||||||||||| That is a fix for WEP issues, not WPA-PSK.
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||||||||||| First, what firmware is in the Linksys? Update to the latest
||||||||||| version. What is the rekey interval set to on the Linksys?
||||||||||| Try 300 Third, are you running a beta/RC of XP SP2 ?
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||||||||||| On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 21:21:25 GMT, "David McKinnon"
||||||||||| <contactint@hotmail.com> wrote:
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|||||||||||| I forgot to mention, even when I get disconnected, I can
|||||||||||| still see the wireless signal (my laptop picks up the
|||||||||||| SSID) and the signal strength is listed as "Excellent" or
|||||||||||| "Very Good"
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|||||||||||| Thanks in advance
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|||||||||||| "David McKinnon" <contactint@hotmail.com> wrote in message
|||||||||||| news:0bbBc.23134$by2.15998@edtnps84...
||||||||||||| Hi,
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||||||||||||| I have a Linksys WRT54G Router and an MN-720 Wireless card
||||||||||||| in my Dell Latitude laptop, running Windows XP Pro. I use
||||||||||||| WPA-PSK and am frequently getting disconnected from the
||||||||||||| network. I have checked many other articles all suggest
||||||||||||| that I disable 802.1xxx authentication, but under the
||||||||||||| properties menu this is disabled (in the on position).
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||||||||||||| Thanks
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