annoying SP2 wireless problem

I have a Toshiba satellite 1130 laptop, and a wireless network with 128bit
wep encryption turned on the router. After installing service pack 2, the
wireless network's usable range has been halved. I checked with netstumbler
and the signal strength is the same as before but windows seems to need
higher signal strength to connect. Windows will try to connect for a while
and then eventually say it is connected with errors. Or it will say it cannot
connect and to contact your network administrator. Eventually it will connect
but sometimes with a seemingly random ip address that bears no relation to
the ones I set in the LAN settings of my router or the ip address pool. When
windows does this, it thinks it's connected but the connection doesn’t work.
I tried assigning a static ip address and this increased the usable range of
the wireless network back to what it was. But I do not want to keep a static
ip address because I would prefer not to have to turn the static ip address
on and off when I change networks. Is there any way that I can fix this
problem, or is there a way I can stop windows from trying to auto configure
everything.

Is WPA or .1x configured on your router?

--PA

"Greg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news315E1D5-9B73-4E01-B88F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a Toshiba satellite 1130 laptop, and a wireless network with 128bit
> wep encryption turned on the router. After installing service pack 2, the
> wireless network's usable range has been halved. I checked with netstumbler
> and the signal strength is the same as before but windows seems to need
> higher signal strength to connect. Windows will try to connect for a while
> and then eventually say it is connected with errors. Or it will say it cannot
> connect and to contact your network administrator. Eventually it will connect
> but sometimes with a seemingly random ip address that bears no relation to
> the ones I set in the LAN settings of my router or the ip address pool. When
> windows does this, it thinks it's connected but the connection doesn't work.
> I tried assigning a static ip address and this increased the usable range of
> the wireless network back to what it was. But I do not want to keep a static
> ip address because I would prefer not to have to turn the static ip address
> on and off when I change networks. Is there any way that I can fix this
> problem, or is there a way I can stop windows from trying to auto configure
> everything.