Re: Problem Connecting to Wireless Router After Soft Reset on MPC

My lease times are set for 1 week, and every time a PocketPC times-out
without use, shuts down and looses connection, it can connect immediately
and perfectly after I turn it back on, and even receive the same IP address
it had before.

After all, this is what lease time controls: how much time the IP address
will be held for each device without a connection. I don't believe that the
key for the problem should be there, and if it is, something is not well
defined in the router.

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Helio Diamant
MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
www.pocketpcfreak.com


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"Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile Devices" <helio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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It seems like the router is "holding on" to the connection of the device
(which was closed abnormally when the device turned off) and then
refusing to let the same device hop-in in another connection.


Lease time.

Seems to me more as an issue of the router than as an issue of the Pocket
PC.... but then I had a D-Link 514, threw it away and swore never to buy
a D-Link Router again, so I am quite biased on this issue.


To be honest that isnt a specific D-Link problem and further than that, I
have a G604T from them, have for a few years and it has been great. I have
even used them for other installations at companies and homes and still
great at those places. In fact the only D-Link router that I have had that
is a problem is one I am to replace today. Of course the woman who sits
near them noted wi-fi not working, pulled out the modem and router power
plugs and put them back in the wrong devices, blowing the router but I
guess that is to be expected in that case. :)

You can do a test to see if this is really what is happening: reset the
router, connect the PPC and then after some time (and before it turns
off), do a shutdown of the wireless LAN on the PPC. This would cause the
connection to close elegantly. Then try to reconnect. If you manage to
reconnect, my assumption from the first paragraph is correct. Then you
should try to check if there is any BIOS update from D-LINK that fixes
this.


He really only needs to set the lease time to something more likely to be
compliant with his needs supposing there isn't a problem with his
individual router and then if there is that problem, maybe it is just his
router starting to die.




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