Intermittant wireless DHCP errors

[bremen1874]

I’ve got a PC with a Belkin F5D7050B USB wireless adapter.

It’s connecting to a Belkin F5D8631-4 v3.

There’s only a few metres between them, and the signal strength is fine.

After every 4 or 5 reboots it decides not to connect properly. If you check the Belkin wireless configuration tool it shows as connected (from a wireless point of view) but with there are error symbols over the links drawn between the PC and the router, and the router and the Internet. If you then press the connect button the error symbols go away and the connection works.

Each time this happens there’s a DHCP error in the Windows event log:

Source: Dhcp
Category: None
Event ID: 1003

Description:

Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from
the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address
XXXXXXXXXXXX. The following error occurred:
The semaphore timeout period has expired. Your computer will continue
to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP)
server.

Has anyone had a similar problem and managed to fix it?

 

[edscdk]

1) update the drivers
2) if you are using belkins utility to manage the wireless remove it and use the MS one.. if you are using the MS one try the belkin one
3) Set a manual address on the adapter

failing that get a different usb thingie?

 

[bremen1874]

Thanks. Those are basically the steps I'm currently working through.

It's annoying because the problem has only appeared since Windows was reinstalled.