Laptop losing wireless connection every few minutes

[ITM]

I've just installed Windows XP Pro SP1 on a Toshiba Portege 2010,
followiing a hard disc reformat. Before I needed to reformat, I was
using the pre-installed XP and had no problems accessing my 802.11b
network.

Now I find that every few minutes the laptop loses the connection to
the network. A message pops up in the system tray: "wireless network
connection: one or more wireless netwokrs are available". If I then
right-click on the network icon I can select the wireless connection
again, and re-establish the connection (but only for a few minutes
until it drops again).

My wireless router is a Netgear WGR614. I've just added 128-bit WEP
encryption to it (at about the same time that I re-installed XP on the
laptop), so I'm not sure whether it's the new XP installation or the
encryption that's causing the problem.

Can anyone suggest what the problem might be?

TIA

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Check the Authentication options in your wireless network adapter's settings
and make sure that you don't have 802.1x authentication enabled. You'll
find this by right-clicking your wireless adapter in the Network Connections
box, selecting Properties, then the Authentication tab.

 

[ITM]

Check the Authentication options in your wireless network adapter's settings
and make sure that you don't have 802.1x authentication enabled. You'll
find this by right-clicking your wireless adapter in the Network Connections
box, selecting Properties, then the Authentication tab.

This seemed to do the trick - many thanks

 

[Richard G. Harper]

You're entirely welcome.

 

[ITM]

Check the Authentication options in your wireless network adapter's settings
and make sure that you don't have 802.1x authentication enabled. You'll
find this by right-clicking your wireless adapter in the Network Connections
box, selecting Properties, then the Authentication tab.

That did the trick - many thanks!

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Glad I was able to help.