Internal WiFi continually drops connection
Sunday, January 8, 2012 by kona0197 | Discussion: Personal Computing
I'm fixing my girlfriend's notebook. It's a Gateway 4025. It has an Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG wireless card. It connects to a D-Link DIR-615 router. Both have the latest drivers and firmware. The Gateway runs Windows XP SP3 with all updates. Yet the notebook drops the connection almost every 5 minutes. Is there a way to solve this besides switching to Linux?
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Reply #22 Monday, January 9, 2012 7:25 PM
Then you must have it connected to your network.
You need to check the number of allowed devices. It can be very specific. You can limit it to 2 or 5 or 10 or any number you want but once the number is input that is ALL it will allow until you change it. This will also help in any 'unwanted' devices riding on your router.
I looked at so much crap but one thing that jumped out was switching both to 11 (I think I recall my IT saying 11 also I just don't remember why...security maybe) and trying WEP and WPA to see which worked better. If it's working on 8, screw it.
Hope you got it working. Sorry if I side tracked you with anything I put out here.
Reply #23 Monday, January 9, 2012 8:28 PM
I've read through the above post's, we know it's not hardware and sounds like software. I have an old router myself and I know it can only support 5 or 6devices tops. And it doesn't drop when using Linux. I'm at a loss myself but just in case you have ghost machines on your router here's a link to see who and what is on your network.....
Reply #24 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:38 AM
My HP LAPTOP wifi kept dropping due to overheating.
I cleaned it up, started to behave well..
Reply #25 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:20 PM
Do you use bittorrent software. My router drops and need restart if I do this and dont limit number of connections.
Reply #28 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:43 PM
Somehow, after messing with some of the adapter's properties, it is.
Reply #29 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:44 PM
Don't you just hate it when you fix something as irritating as that and you're not sure exactly how or why you were able to fix it? That kind of shit drives me nutz.
Reply #30 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:17 PM
Glad the problem's solved.
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Reply #21 Monday, January 9, 2012 7:11 PM
I'm pretty sure it is. I'll check it out though.
Well I wasn't aware a Wii could get email. Be that as it may it only connects at night to stream movies for my daughter. We keep at least two computers off at that time as we don't have enough bandwidth to satisfy serving all computers and Netflix going at once.
I think I'll avoid installing SP3. Right now the connection is stable. I went into the control panel and set the card for wifi B only and turned off power management. i also set it to channel 8, as the router is on channel 8. I'm not going to hold my breath but all is well so far.
Thanks for looking into this for me.
That would not help. I pulled out the card last night. It's made by Intel, not Broadcom.
The router belongs to me so my provider wouldn't know anything about it.