Wireless Laptop, not connecting properly

Clairvoyant

Clairvoyant

Clairvoyant

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AS above.

I have a wireless laptop, and 95% of the time. It fails to connect to the router.

It either wont get the correct ip address.

It it seems to connect for like 1 second, the disconnects, the reconnects.

I have tired entering the key phrase again.

Help please the wife screaming at me too much.

Thanx in advance.
 
Clairvoyant said:
AS above.

I have a wireless laptop, and 95% of the time. It fails to connect to the router.

It either wont get the correct ip address.

It it seems to connect for like 1 second, the disconnects, the reconnects.

I have tired entering the key phrase again.

Help please the wife screaming at me too much.

Thanx in advance.
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Weird... try restoring the router to its factory defaults and deleting the connection off the laptop and start again. Doubt it's interference causing the disconnections as you're saying it's assigning the wrong IP address.
 
limited or no connection.

So it does not get the ip address.

I try ipconfig /release, the ipconfig /renew. And it says it cant get the correct adress because the DCHP problem.
 
Need some info.

1. Are you using the Wireless NIC Hardware manufacturer driver (Intel etc) to handle wireless connections or are you using the Windows Wireless Zero config? If its the hardware drivers, try letting windows handle it or vice versa.

2. What security are you using? WEP? WPA? WPA2? Remove all security and try connecting with no encryption and see what happens.
 
I have removed the encription. And its connects all the time.

I have rebooted, unpluged the card, put the machine in to standby.

All work

so am going to try the encription again.
 
So the problem lies when you're using encryption, what encryption are you using?? I don't think you said.
 
i just got my lappy working with my router, i turned off windows firewall and on my router i turned on the 125g turbo (which boost the signal for high performing network cards) and works well.
 
WPA is the encription.

Its not a regular thing. Im wondering if I turn the encription off. And turn mac filtering on. (So only people with the mac addresses I input can log onto the router.) Would that work just like encription. eg no on will be able to hijack my router.
 
It doesn't have to be your router. Either way, it sounds like it's your router that's the problem.

Is it as unstable with WEP?
 
Can you change the authentication type in the router menu?
Options are normally auto, open or shared.

No idea what the differance is but sorted same problem out with a mates laptop.
 
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