RE: Wireless Networking Problem
From: Divyesh Patel (Patel_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/10/04
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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:08:02 -0700
Hello Russ:
I read your solution. Thanks. Do you know anything about wireless networking in Workgroup. My 2 laptops can access Desktop but Desktop can not access but see other two as well as laptop can see all. Files are shared and no firewalls.
Please EMAIl me to divyesh@diversifiedpromotions.com if you have any suggestion.
Thanks
"Russ Sonnenschein" wrote:
> I am posting this to help others who may have had the same problem. Like
> many I too would lose my wireless internet connection every 1 to 5 minutes.
> My solution is at the end.
>
> Setup:
>
> My setup was between two XP machines (one XP Pro the other XP Home) using a
> peer-to-peer (ad hoc) wireless network setting with two identical USB
> 802.11b (NetGear MA101) access points. On one machine (XP Pro) I "bridged"
> the wireless connection to a hardwired LinkSys 4 port router using XP. The
> connection signal was very strong between the two access points. Both
> machines were set to use DHCP for getting an IP address. All software and
> associate firmware was up to date with all the latest official
> releases/service packs/patches as of 7/8/2004.
>
> Problem:
>
> After limited web browsing the remote machine (the one with only a wireless
> connection) would fail to browse pages. Disabling or repairing the
> connection would get things to work again for a few minutes and then I'd
> repeat the process. However acessing shared folders across the network tot
> not seem to exhibit the same problem!?!?
>
> Actually the machines had worked fine for a year or so, but I now realize
> that the problems started only after a failed attempt to upgrade to a faster
> Microsoft 802.11g product. Because of how the problem machine is used
> (mostly as a media player) it was unclear for a long time that I had a
> problem. More on this below.
>
> Attempted solutions:
>
> I tried all the advice that I found on the net:
>
> (1) Made sure that the Enable IEE 802.1x authentication was turned
> off--not really even an option for peer to peer (ah hoc) networks.
>
> (2) Made sure the power management on the networking devices (Allow the
> computer to turn off this device) was unchecked.
>
> (3) Tried disabling the unchecking "Use Windows to configure my wireless
> settings" and using the NetGear software. (Did not work and set back)
>
> (4) Set advanced setting to computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only
> and made sure automatically connect to non-preferred networks was unchecked.
>
> (5) Tried to stop the Wireless Zero Configuration service (Did not work
> and set back on.)
>
> Solution:
>
> I finally traced the problem down to the "Microsoft Broadband Utility" which
> happened to be installed on both machines. The software came with a prior
> attempt to get my networks to work with a Microsoft 802.11g access
> point/router/firewall. I had returned that product for similar reasons
> before but did not uninstall the client software. I even spent hours on the
> phone with Microsoft trying to get that product to work with different
> computers...and they eventually told me to just return the product. Of
> course I now believe that the root cause was the same problem.
>
> Once I uninstalled the "Microsoft Broadband Utility" from both machines my
> problem went away.
>
> -Russell Sonnenschein
>
>
>
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