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Problems with 1300 Drop Off
I'm using a TrueMobile 1300 card installed in my Inspiron 5100. The wireless network is using an Airport base station (older graphite model) with 40-bit WEP encryption enabled. Even though I have the network selected and the hexadecimal password saved, I constantly am experiencing network drop off. Usually if I open Wireless Connection Properties, I can re-select the network and get right back on. Still, it's a pain and prevents me from doing anything interactive because I constantly am being disconnected. Any idea what could be wrong? Should I modify any of the wireless properties? As for the other devices on the network, the lone Mac and a TiVo DVR never appear to have drop off issues.
ThomasLenne
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Posted April 5th, 2004 08:00
It took me half a year to find out that my 1300 PC card and the Truemobile 1184 router like best to communicate on channel 11. Until then I suffered from frequent drops of connections and still now it happens once in a while, but very seldom. maybe thats due to the 4 wireless phones which use the same frequency range (2.4 GHz)
Thomas
ThomasLenne
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Posted April 5th, 2004 08:00
It took me half a year to find out that my 1300 PC card and the Truemobile 1184 router like best to communicate on channel 11. Until then I suffered from frequent drops of connections and still now it happens once in a while, but very seldom. maybe thats due to the 4 wireless phones which use the same freuequency range (2.4 GHz)
Thomas
Neil Soane
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Posted April 4th, 2004 16:00
This is probably the same issue that most of us have had for a while now, update to the latest Truemobile app and drivers from the Dell site and then switch off the "let windows handle wireless connections" etc, if you let the truemobile app handle the lot the drop-offs should go away.
Don't use WPA though, as there are a raft of other problems using that encryption at the moment.
Hope that helps
Neil