I use a USR wireless card whose USR software lets you select
the time span (or remove it).
It's under settings for 802.1X on the router setup.
Since the errant Windows XP default setting for 802.1x authentication
was the cause of these WinXP only intermittent home network wireless
periodic dropouts, I was wondering what the wireless networking
settings below should be for most of us with a simple WindowsXP PC
connected wirelessly to a basic linksys router connected in the
most standard way to the Internet (via cable, dsl, isdn, etc.).
1. Open the Win XP "Network Connections" window:
Start->Connect To->Show all connections
2. Double-click on the "Network Connections" connectoid titled
"Wireless Network Connection"
"Enabled, Firewalled"
"IBM High Rate Wireless LAN MiniPCI Combo Card"
3. This brings up the WinXP "Wireless Network Connection Status"
form which has two tabs, "General" & "Support"; in the
"General" tab, click on the "Properties" button.
4. This brings up the all-important WinXP form titled:
"Wireless Network Connections Properties", which has three
tabs "General", "Wireless Networks", and "Advanced".
5a. We already know from this helpful thread to TURN OFF the
802.1x authentication by going to the "Wireless Networks" tab
and by selecting the available "default" network and by
pressing the "Configure" button which brings up the critical
"Wireless network properties" form with two tabs "Association"
and "Authentication" to which we need to UNCHECK the
[ ]Enable IEEE 802.1x authentication for this network
box in the "Authentication" tab.
5b. And what settings should a normal home user have for step 4
in the WinXP "Wireless Netowrk Connections Properties" form
if instead of going to the "Wireless Networks" tab to press
the "Configure" button; go to that "Wireless Networks" tab
to press the "Advanced" button which brings up an "Advanced"
form with the following four selections available:
Networks to access:
( )Any available network (access point preferred)
( )Access point (infrastructure) networks only
( )Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only
[ ]Automatically connectd to non-preferred networks
5c. And what settings should a normal home user have for step 4
in the WinXP "Wireless Netowrk Connections Properties" form
if instead of going to the "Wireless Networks" tab to press
the "Configure" button or to press the "Advanced" button,
we instead go to the "General" tab and press the "Configure"
button on that "General" tab where it says:
Connect using:
"IBM High Rate Wireless Lan MiniPCI Combo Card"
This (different) "Configure" button brings up the form titled
"IBM High Rate Wireless LAN MiniPCI Combo Card" which has four
tabs, "General", "Advanced", "Driver", and "Resources".
Specifically, if I select the "Advanced" tab, I get ten options:
PROPERTY: AVAILABLE_VALUES:
Adhoc Demo Mode Values = Enable or Disable
Authentication Algorithm Values = Automatic or Shared with WEP
or Open System Authentication
Extended Channel Mode Values = Enable or Disable (for N. America)
Firmware Download Values = Enable or Disable
Fragmentation Threshold Values = 256 or 384 or 512 or 640 or 768, etc.
Listen Interval Values = 0 or 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5, etc.
Power Save Level Values = Normal or Enhanced
Power Save Mode Values = Auto Enable or Always Enable or
Disable
Preamble Mode Values = Long Tx Preamble or Short Tx Preamble
or Auto
RTS Threshold Values = 0 or 64 or 128 or 192 or 256, etc.
MY QUESTION:
Q: Can anyone out there tell us the correct wireless settings for items
5b and 5c above for a standard (pretty basic) home system
(cable/dsl/isdn modem to wireless router to laptop via wireless card)?
