-=PCTechTalk=- Re: wireless connection - not staying connected
- From: "Bran x86" <branx86@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:49:00 -0500
if you use the Microsoft Windows XP SP 1-based Wireless Zero Configuration
service to manage your wireless (aka, the "built-in client"), you're
probably running into a horrible bug that Microsoft
calls<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811427&Product=winxp>"behavior
by design." The gist of this is as follows: if your wireless
network is set to *not* broadcast your SSID, Microsoft's wireless manager
will periodically drop your non-broadcasting WiFi connection in response to
the presence of a *broadcasting* SSID-based network. You won't fully
associate with that network, but the service will pop-up and tell you that
there are multiple wireless networks to join, even if you have removed all
other networks from your preferred settings (this contradicts Microsoft's
report, which says it *only* affects preferred networks). The upshot of this
is that you, the user who changes his default SSID and then sets it to not
broadcast<http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/w/wireless-security-howto/home-802.11b-1.html>(as
most security guides, and most hardware setup guides will tell you to
do), now gets dropped off your network when you neighbor shows up with his
new D-Link wireless router and not only fails to change the SSID from
default to something else, but does not turn off broadcasting, either. While
many may debate the security benefits of disabling SSID broadcast, it is a
practice that is recommended by most manufacturers of wireless products.
Your options are two (2.5, really): you can set your own router to broadcast
your SSID, which it resolved the problem. Alternatively, you can stop using
the Windows Wireless Zero Configuration service and instead opt for another
wireless client, namely that which came with your wireless card. Additional
testing revealed that if your wireless settings are already configured and
correct, you can actually stop and then disable the Wireless Zero
Configuration service. The wireless still works, but your Wireless tab will
disappear in Networking properties. This solution is not ideal, but it could
be used in a bind.
On 6/12/07, Cris <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> win xp
> linksy's wireless g
>
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