From: John Cuccia 

I had exactly those troubles here, using a Thinkpad T42 equipped with an
/Intel Pro/Wireless 2200bg NIC and various wireless routers from Linksys
and Netgear.

Turning off all wireless security except MAC filtering fixed it.


On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:47:08 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>I've got WLAN set at my office, and it's started acting funny: I can use it
>for like a couple of hours (one hour yesterday, about three today) normally,
>and then all of a sudden my computer (XP Pro) drops the wireless connection.
>Then it re-connects automatically, stays on for 10-30 seconds and drops off
>again. Then reconnect, and so on and so on. It never gets to a normal state
>again before I reboot the system, after which it seems to work normally.
>
>I had MS Virtual PC installed for a while, and got some bluescreens with
>that. I think it may have been related to the network drivers. I uninstalled
>it, and manually cleared out everything I could find related to the VPC
>setup. Then I tried VMWare Workstation for a while, and had this problem
>(on-off-on-off), so I uninstalled VMWare as I thought that was the cause,
>but it's still happening.
>
>In any case, I think it's this computer and not the access point because a
>reboot cures it. I've done spyware sweeps and full virus scan, disk check
>and defragment, and uninstalled everything possible so that the system is
>running as few processes as possible, but still it just happened. Any ideas
>what to check?
>
>
>TIA,
>Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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