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i have a mecer laptop and my connection to my router constantly drops speed from 54mbps to 1.0mbps. when that happens i can't even connect to my router unless i restart. I have tried changing channels, different combinations, turning off ALL electronic equipement at home but nothing works!
i have even changed my router and got a new one today. (netgear dg834gt)
could it be my wireless card? if so where do i check it out? is there any system check i can do on my pc to test it. This is totally making my life miserable :(
 
Well thats settled, onto my wireless card problem.

I have a generic Asus wireless card that came with my friends Asus A8V Deluxe mobo, now I am using it in my Asus A8n-e mobo. Anyway, it has lag for anything, even when you LAN games it just lags for a second or two every minute. It also drops the connection occasionally, and gets very irritating.

Now I would guess its a driver problem, as I just use some driver that I found for its chip type (Ralink 2500) which works under XP and Vista but with the same problem for both.

However I have no idea which driver I could use off the Asus site, this card has no model number or anything.. Okay its a pretty hard question to answer.. but could anyone help at all, any ideas for a driver to try out, or any generic driver that might work?
 
wait, what hardware do you have?[then search for that at the manufacturers site, e.g. for the one mentioned above check intel's site]
 
Silkman & Ekhaatvensters,

It could be the drivers, but it could also be the software you're using to manage the wireless connection(s) that is causing the problem of dropping connections? Do you use Windows wireless utility to manage your wireless connections or do you use third party software/wireless card software?

If you're using Windows to do it, you might find that your wireless connection tend to continuously drop at random times, because the Windows Zero Configuration service (WZC) constantly scans for other wireless networks, even after you've already connected.
This process can cause wireless clients/adapters to randomly drop their connection. The best method for alleviating this problem is to use third party software to manage your wireless connection because once the connection is made, it won't try and scan for wireless networks after that. This software will almost always be provided with the driver for the wireless card you are using. Once you have this software installed you will want to disable the WZC service to prevent it from loading at startup.
 
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@rolotamasi : will try that if the driver update doesn't work- thanx.

@krycor yes that is the only wireless network hardware showing in device manager (intel PRO/wireless 2200BG Network Connection" so i guess that's the 1 I have not the ,ecer one. I just don't wanna update the driver if I'm not sure. please advise which driver i need to install from

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/scr...XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go!

thanks
 
I have a mecer wireless card with the acx111 chipset. Windows will drop the connection sporadically while Linux, using the same windows drivers, will have no problem keeping the link up. This forced me to come to the conclusion that XP is just broken, and no amount of updated drivers will make it stable.
 
RoloTomasi said:
Silkman & Ekhaatvensters,

It could be the drivers, but it could also be the software you're using to manage the wireless connection(s) that is causing the problem of dropping connections? Do you use Windows wireless utility to manage your wireless connections or do you use third party software/wireless card software?

If you're using Windows to do it, you might find that your wireless connection tend to continuously drop at random times, because the Windows Zero Configuration service (WZC) constantly scans for other wireless networks, even after you've already connected.
This process can cause wireless clients/adapters to randomly drop their connection. The best method for alleviating this problem is to use third party software to manage your wireless connection because once the connection is made, it won't try and scan for wireless networks after that. This software will almost always be provided with the driver for the wireless card you are using. Once you have this software installed you will want to disable the WZC service to prevent it from loading at startup.
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Well the third party utility that comes with my driver unfortunately can't keep the connection for more than a few seconds. It will successfully connect and then just suddenly drop, as well as being incapable of remembering my WEP key. Windows wireless manager (On Windows Vista for me now) works fine, but there are a few random drops, but not very often at all, and I'm wondering if it is not related to my network card's constant (huge) lag spikes. The other wireless adapter in my house has no problem whatsoever with keeping a connection using Vista manager.

I have just installed the new drivers which were very hard to find.. I'm still going to check finally if it has alleviated the problem.
 
ok i installed the new drivers and everything seems to b going fine for now. Can someone PLEASE tell me why my old drivers didn't drop the connection and then suddenly 1 day I need new drivers? I didn't install any new programs or change any configurations?
 
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