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Do you always notice your wireless adapter is always dropping and reconnecting to your wireless network. If you dont know what I mean just watch the balloon in the bottom right hand corner of you windows Xp task bar. Your wireless adapter should stay connected and thats it if you are constantly connecting and reconnecting then you have problems.

1. Update your wireless adapters Driver - To obtain the most updater driver for your wireless adapter proceed to the manufactures website and go the support section. They should ask you for your model of wireless adapter, leading you to the most up to date driver for your wireless adapter. Updating your wireless adapter is very important because if you are trying to connect to a network that is using WPA2 most of the initial drivers already have patches out. After you re-install your wireless adapters driver then you will need to restart you computer.

2. Next if this still doesnt work you should take the battery out of your laptop and hold the power button down for about a minute. Not sure of the exact details of why this works but it does have something to do with getting rid of all the static charges that might interfere with your wireless adapter.

3. Stopping and restarting windows xp wireless zero configuration utility - Proceed to the run menus and type msconfig, then go to services and go all the way down to the bottom and uncheck the wireless zereo configuration utility and then restart your computer. Next after your wireless laptop is powered up then we will restart the wireless zero configuration utility, go to the run menu again and typ services.msc, press W to go all the way to the bottom and then right clidk the wireless zero config services and press start.

4. Delete all of you wireless network profiles - Reconfigure all your wireless network profiles by typing in your SSID, WPA, WPA2 and passphrase. try using WPA2 but not use AES encryption, use mixed or TKIP this might help.

5. Update all of your wireless access points firmware - When WPA2 first came out all wireless hardware companies rushed out updated drivers and firmware, well most of those drivers and firmwares had minor glitches which have been fixed now.

6. Change your wireless adapters stickiness - In you wireless adapters advanced properties check to see that your your wireless adapters stickiness is set to medium - Stickiness means how aggressively your wireless router will jump from access point to access point in order to find the best signal. If it is set to high you might end up losing more that gaining.

The first things I would do before doing anything else is updating your wireless adapters firmware and then deleting your wireless network profiles.

posted by 83212  # 8:15 PM