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from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2006-08-04 14:47:08
subject: WLAN acting up

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

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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