How to tell which Metric XP uses?

[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.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

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.

To see the metric for an XP network connection, open a command prompt
window (Start > Run > cmd) and type this line:

route print

Find the line(s) with the connection's IP address as the 4th number.
The connection's metric is the 5th number.

However, I don't think that the Win2k problem is related to the metric
value. I think that there's a problem getting the WiFi card to
associate with your wireless network, as shown by the "cable
disconnected" message and the "0.0.0.0" IP address. Downloading and
installing the latest Win2k driver for the WiFi card might help.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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