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

Setting the lease time to two minutes may show where the problem is, and it
may appear to solve some problems, but IMHO it will create extra traffic on
the network, and lead to less throughput on the network. You shouldn't need
to set lease times to anything like one hour. It is IMHO a sign of a poor
DHCP server.

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Hmmm....well I tried manually turning off 802.11 as you suggested but
got the same result. I don't have this problem with my wireless
connection at work, so it seems like it might be something with my
router. But what could it be . . . ?


Check the router settings. Specifically the lease time. It may be set
never to drop those wi-fi clients that connect to it. If so, reset it to
drop them sooner. My lease time is 1 hour. I actually turn the router off
when I am going out as a precaution BUT if I drop the connection to the
router, 1 hour later the router will kick off any supposed connection by
my connected device.

Microsoft also noted this as a problem with W2K at one time where the
device would not show as having disconnected but upon discover of the
connecting device and finding it is actually the same one as still there,
would offer a zero lease time connection.

Your problem seems to be that you have set IP addresses to specific MACs
and unfortunately have set the lease time (or it is set somehow) too long.
Reduce the lease time to 1 hour or maybe 30 minutes in normal use but as a
test, go to the router and set the lease time to 2 minutes, connect
successfully with the PDA, disconnect, wait a bit longer than 2 minutes
before you attempt to connect again then try to connect and see what you
get. My bet is that it works, then.





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