Re: Intermittent Wireless Connectivity

Have you tried using static IP's on the wireless units?

What program are you using to connect to the network that it "loses" the WEP
key?

"Gary" <Gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BF057854-4759-4F91-B146-358ECA76F46B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I have several wireless clients connecting to Win2K3 server.
> Intermittently, the wireless connection is dropped and usually cannot be
> restored unless I re-enter the WEP key on the client machine.
>
> Some T/S'ing I've done thus far to try to isolate the problem:
> Users accounts work fine on wired clients.
> When the wireless machines are hard wired to the network, connectivity is
> fine.
> When the wireless machines are taken off the domain and placed in a
> "dummy"
> workgroup, connectivity is fine but of course they are not authenticating
> to
> the domain and therefore have no access to resources other than the
> internet.
>
> Seems to be some sort of wireless/AD issue. I have set up a wireless
> security policy since this problem began but no change. I'm sure this is
> a
> simple fix but I just don't know what direction to look at this point.
>
> --
> Gary


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