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twelfthcmd
Hi all..
I'm having trouble connecting to my G wifi with a win2k SP4 machine.
It detects the network with 90% signal strength but refuses to connect
("Connection failed" after a while). I tried a winxp machine and it
connects immediately, so I tried to install winxp on the same
troublesome machine and it also connected immediately.
(This is not a WEP issue as I have the proper key). I tried to do an
ipconfig /flushdns, /release and /renew and sometimes they fail,
sometimes succeed but don't solve the issue.
Ipconfig /all says "cable disconnected" on the wifi card section,
or sometimes it says "0.0.0.0" on the autoconfiguration IP address and
subnet mask, everything else blank.
(DHCP enabled and Autoconfiguration are set to YES).
When I connect the same router with a cable it works, albeit browsing
web pages seems to spend 5-10 seconds on the initial looking up phase
after typing the URL.
I have compared th TCP/IP settings on the xp/2k installations and they
are identical save for the 'automatic metric' feature of XP, which
win2k doesn't have. I thought perhaps the auto metric of XP computes
some exotic value which is best to my wifi (the 2k metric is set to
1).
So my question is, how do I find out what metric XP uses so I can set
it on the 2k OS also?
Thanks for your help.
I'm having trouble connecting to my G wifi with a win2k SP4 machine.
It detects the network with 90% signal strength but refuses to connect
("Connection failed" after a while). I tried a winxp machine and it
connects immediately, so I tried to install winxp on the same
troublesome machine and it also connected immediately.
(This is not a WEP issue as I have the proper key). I tried to do an
ipconfig /flushdns, /release and /renew and sometimes they fail,
sometimes succeed but don't solve the issue.
Ipconfig /all says "cable disconnected" on the wifi card section,
or sometimes it says "0.0.0.0" on the autoconfiguration IP address and
subnet mask, everything else blank.
(DHCP enabled and Autoconfiguration are set to YES).
When I connect the same router with a cable it works, albeit browsing
web pages seems to spend 5-10 seconds on the initial looking up phase
after typing the URL.
I have compared th TCP/IP settings on the xp/2k installations and they
are identical save for the 'automatic metric' feature of XP, which
win2k doesn't have. I thought perhaps the auto metric of XP computes
some exotic value which is best to my wifi (the 2k metric is set to
1).
So my question is, how do I find out what metric XP uses so I can set
it on the 2k OS also?
Thanks for your help.