Unstable wireless connection (am I missing any setting?)

[Guest]

Hi, we have an on campus wireless network at our university. My settings are
exactly as they've provided. It is a PEAP type authentication system. What
happens is the system drops the connection (no regular time period), then for
a few minutes shows "attempting to authenticate" status, finally looses the
IP it had and gets an automatic IP. Sometimes it pops up the
username/password screen often. Why can't it remember the username and
password I have entered so many times? Am I missing any settings here? There
is no phone or any other type of disturbance. This happens with all types of
network cards. Our university staff is dumb and have no clue about this.
Appreciate your help.
Malay

 

[V Green]

Hi, we have an on campus wireless network at our university. My settings are
exactly as they've provided. It is a PEAP type authentication system. What
happens is the system drops the connection (no regular time period), then for
a few minutes shows "attempting to authenticate" status, finally looses the
IP it had and gets an automatic IP. Sometimes it pops up the
username/password screen often. Why can't it remember the username and
password I have entered so many times? Am I missing any settings here? There
is no phone or any other type of disturbance. This happens with all types of
network cards. Our university staff is dumb and have no clue about this.
Appreciate your help.
Malay

Even though you say there's no interference, the symptoms
you report say otherwise.

You need someone qualified (NOT the IT staff - they don't know
beans about RF) to check for it.

 

[RalfG]

If you are using Wireless Zero for your network configuration, you can try
this; Open the wireless network connection properties and switch to the
Wireless Networks tab. In the Preferred Networks box make sure that the
entry for the campus network is at the top of the list and is the only entry
configured to autoconnect when in range, or better still delete any other
entries that might be there. Click on the Advanced button and select the
radio button for "Access point (infrastructure) networks only. That will
hopefully help prevent your computer from automatically trying to join any
ad hoc network connections or wireless routers near you.

Some wireless adapters re-negotiate the secure connection with the network
more frequently than others, which may be related to using a different brand
of chipset in the hardware (I see that with my Prism vs Atheros chipsets on
my LAN). During the negotiation your computer's wireless adapter may pick up
on a wireless signal from any number of alternate sources and try to
connect to that instead of the campus connection, hence the repeated prompts
for passwords and the reversion to automatic IPs when it fails to connect.

 

[me]

MS KB describes your problem

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885453/en-us

can't download hotfix direct from MS but you can find it on web

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[me]

MS KB describes your problem

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885453/en-us

can't download hotfix direct from MS but you can find it on web

EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
http://www.eggheadcafe.com