-=PCTechTalk=- Re: wireless connection - not staying connected
- From: "Tech Rose - LoveBytes" <TechRose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:45:33 -0700
Network Magic?
Rose
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Wilcox" <Dwilcox3@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:37 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: wireless connection - not staying connected
If you have a linksys router you should have the Linksys utility to replace
the MS utility. I had both router and adapter and I used the Linksys the
utility. I'm wired with that computer now and don't remember the name but
it puts a little green square in your notification area.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:05 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: wireless connection - not staying connected
> Thank you!!
> very interesting!
> I have sp2. So - ok - I clicked on the msoft link - it does mention sp2.
> Talked to my son and he said he disabled ssid and it wouldn't connect.
> He also said that I don't have another control utility.
> I am just really frustrated at this point! Not frustrated enough to
> disable the password protection though - YET!! LOL
>
> Cris
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bran x86
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:49 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: wireless connection - not staying connected
>
>
> 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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