Re: Intermittent Wireless Connectivity

Had an issue like that on one site and it was caused by a Path Lab two
doors up firing up one of their machines. Had to resort to Wiring the
clients. - Not saying this is the cause in your case but it may pay to
run a Site Audit and log. ( one tool is netstumbler
http://www.netstumbler.com/ )

Other devices that can cut the signal are any un or inadequately
shielded equipment outputting high RFI (Speakers, Wireless/Mobile
Phones, Photocopiers, Other Local networks on a close-by or overlapping
channel ) It can be intermittent both in time and location, and a pain
to track down. - It may also just be poor quality WiFi APs and
receivers.

You may want to try disabling Wireless Zero Config and running the 3rd
party utility supplied with the Wireless device only. ( running the two
together may be the issue ) or alternately disable / uninstall the
supplied utility and use WZC only.

And of course it may just be poor / Cheap quality Wi-Fi equipment and or
firmware.

--
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
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Melbourne SBS Users Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/

"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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