Wireless connection

I am using a D link router and USB wireless cards and they were working
perfectly until we upgraded from home edition to pro. Now they frequently
time out and give a limited or no connectivity message. When we clik on
repair it says it fails because it is unable to disable ther wireless
adapter. The only way we can connect is to actually unplug the USB adapter
and plug it back in. That is always succesful but seems like it should not
be necessary.

This is an intermittant problem does anyone have a similar experience or
suggestion.

=?Utf-8?B?bm9jdmFk?=

There seem to be two controllers for wireless devices in Windows. One is
the card controller that you probably installed with the wireless card. The
other is the Wireless Zero Configuration service that runs in WinXP. Try
turning one of them off. The WZC is under your wireless connection on the
Wireless Networks tab. Or you could just turn off the utility that came
with the card. I believe, but not sure, that WZC will disable the other
controller, so if you were to try to scan for networks, it would probably
say it can't because of whatever.(technical term . Each controller has
it's own settings, so if you disable one, make sure you put the correct
information in the other.

Clark

"nocvad" <> wrote in message
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>I am using a D link router and USB wireless cards and they were working
> perfectly until we upgraded from home edition to pro. Now they frequently
> time out and give a limited or no connectivity message. When we clik on
> repair it says it fails because it is unable to disable ther wireless
> adapter. The only way we can connect is to actually unplug the USB
> adapter
> and plug it back in. That is always succesful but seems like it should
> not
> be necessary.
>
> This is an intermittant problem does anyone have a similar experience or
> suggestion.

Clark

I have tried just using the d-link utility and it works. Unfortunately it
only has WEP and I was using the windows utility and WPA before with no
problem. I guess my big question is why do I have to unplug and plug back in
the usb card to make the wireless system supply the ip addresss?

Thanks,

"nocvad" wrote:

> I am using a D link router and USB wireless cards and they were working
> perfectly until we upgraded from home edition to pro. Now they frequently
> time out and give a limited or no connectivity message. When we clik on
> repair it says it fails because it is unable to disable ther wireless
> adapter. The only way we can connect is to actually unplug the USB adapter
> and plug it back in. That is always succesful but seems like it should not
> be necessary.
>
> This is an intermittant problem does anyone have a similar experience or
> suggestion.

=?Utf-8?B?bm9jdmFk?=

I would guess that unplugging the card resets all the settings, much like an
ipconfig /renew would do. Next time, go to the WZC page under the Wireless
Networks tab and click on "View wireless networks". A windows should open
up with your network and at the bottom a button that will disconnect the
network. After you disconnect, the button should change to connect.

I would bet if you update your d-Link utility it will now support WPA, they
have been updating all those utilities lately.

Clark

"nocvad" <> wrote in message
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>I have tried just using the d-link utility and it works. Unfortunately it
> only has WEP and I was using the windows utility and WPA before with no
> problem. I guess my big question is why do I have to unplug and plug back
> in
> the usb card to make the wireless system supply the ip addresss?
>
> Thanks,
>
> "nocvad" wrote:
>
>> I am using a D link router and USB wireless cards and they were working
>> perfectly until we upgraded from home edition to pro. Now they
>> frequently
>> time out and give a limited or no connectivity message. When we clik on
>> repair it says it fails because it is unable to disable ther wireless
>> adapter. The only way we can connect is to actually unplug the USB
>> adapter
>> and plug it back in. That is always succesful but seems like it should
>> not
>> be necessary.
>>
>> This is an intermittant problem does anyone have a similar experience or
>> suggestion.

Clark