WiFi problem, please help, sort of urgent :-)

Arterion

Arterion

Arterion

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Hi all,

I'm having a problem with my other half's laptop- its a Sony Vaio which is using a built-in Intel wireless adapter which has the latest driver from MS update. Connection via this adapter to my home network and access to the internet has been fine, but she's literally just moved into a new house and we appear to have the following problem; we can connect to the network (it's using a belkin wireless router), but it only seems to be able to open internet pages for no more than a minute after doing so- after that, all connections either time out or I get a simple 'cannot display the webpage' in FF or IE. I need to disconnect, then reconnect for another 50-60 seconds of functioning, then it cuts out again. Rinse and repeat.

I've set firefox to auto-detect proxy settings to no avail. I'm using XP's Wireless Zero config to get this going. The network is using WPA2 protection and the key was something silly like 'sonysonysony', this seems more like a password than a network key but XP seems to accept it and gives me that 60-seconds or so window of actually working.

I'm going out of my mind with this, I cannot find anything wrong settings-wise, but clearly something IS wrong, I'm guessing the router has a problem with the laptop and/or vice versa because my iPhone connected fine and was completely stable. I don't have access to the router itself for the moment, so woudl appreciate laptop-side suggestions if you have them!!

Anyone have any input? :confused:
 
Thanks for the info, I'll give it a shot and see what happens, though I'll admit to not really knowing what I'm looking for with a problem like this, I've set up dozens of networks in my time but I've never had this kind of error :-(
 
Le Samourai said:
You could double-check the wireless properties in > start > connect to > show all connections. Check the tcp/ipv4 settings are on auto.

It could also be a DNS problem. You'll need to manually configure tcp/ipv4 (rather than the router) and change the DNS servers from auto to something else. You could try OpenDNS servers to rule it out. 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
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IP Address = 192.168.2.5
Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway = 192.168.2.1

The problem also seems to prevent me accessing the router using 192.168.2.1 in Firefox/IE.

Wireless connection properties are set to automatically acquire IP and DNS info, I'll try the OpenDNS settings to test it out.
 
Over a week on and I'm still stuggling with this problem. One thing I have noticed is that in the few moments it works a WAN connection appears in the network connections, and then eventually disappears when it stops working. What does this mean? Could it have something to do with my problem?
 
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