Re: [Thinkpad] T41p: wireless drops connection every 2-3 minutes

Found this in the archive. Might assist you.

> I have a T40 with the a/b card, and it worked flawlessly
> until I updated the driver. Now, it seems that the wireless
> works so much better that it is detecting other wireless
> networks. This would be fine with me, but it keeps kicking
> me off my connection. What happens is that the bubble in XP
> pops up on the toolbar saying that 2 wireless connections are
> available. At that point, my connection is kicked. It is
> like my T40 sees the other signal, and gets indecisive, and
> chooses neither. Is there a way I can make it ignore the
> other one or just not kick my connection? I am sure that my
> access point is much closer. I know that an obvious answer
> is roll back the driver, but short of that what can I do?

*Click the bubble to open the properties for your wireless connection, or
*open the Network Connections control panel, and open the wireless
connection
*properties from there. In the Wireless Networks page, make sure that your
*access point is listed in the Preferred Networks, and remove any others
*listed there. Click the Advanced button and make sure the "automatically
*connect to non-preferred networks" box is *not* checked.

Hopefully it will turn out to be one of those settings...

-Mike

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Webber" <awebber@wwwebbers.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:05 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] T41p: wireless drops connection every 2-3 minutes

> This didn't happen with the old machine (TP600 with Microsoft
> 802.11b PCMCIA card).
>
> Network: Sympatico DSL
> Wireless Router: Microsoft 802.11b
>
> The router is upstairs and I'm sitting downstairs. Everything else
> is physically the same as before, I'm sitting in the same chair and
> the router is in the same place. Only change I made to the router
> was adding the TP41p's 802.11b's MAC address for MAC filtering (I
> also turned off MAC filtering for wired connections but assume
> that's not relevant). I have WEP turned on.
>
> Every 2-3 minutes the connection becomes unavailable. Almost
> immediately the icon in the system tray announces that a wireless
> network is available, of course it's the same network. When I
> connect I get "Very Good" (5 bars). Connection lasts 2-3 minutes
> and then it's lost.
>
> The only other difference is Windows XP vs. Windows 2000. I think
> this must be something in the way my wireless is configured in
> WinXP and that it must be really obvious.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> andrew [awebber@wwwebbers.com]
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Received on Fri Mar 19 13:13:23 2004