Belkin Pre-n in vaio nvr23 dies all the time under Windows XP

I have a belkin pre-n wireless adapter in a vaio nvr23 laptop and it
constantly loses the connection to my AP. I used to reboot the machine
to get it working again but have found out if I just take the card out
and plug it back in it starts working again. Is anyone else having
this problem ? I don't know if it is total crap drivers from belkin
(probably), a problem with XP (probably) or if my aging D-Link AP is
going out to lunch.

Help, this sucks and is driving me insane.

brainiac wrote:
> I have a belkin pre-n wireless adapter in a vaio nvr23 laptop and it
> constantly loses the connection to my AP. I used to reboot the machine
> to get it working again but have found out if I just take the card out
> and plug it back in it starts working again. Is anyone else having
> this problem ? I don't know if it is total crap drivers from belkin
> (probably), a problem with XP (probably) or if my aging D-Link AP is
> going out to lunch.
>
> Help, this sucks and is driving me insane.

What are your router settings?

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
wendy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>brainiac wrote:
>> I have a belkin pre-n wireless adapter in a vaio nvr23 laptop and it
>> constantly loses the connection to my AP. I used to reboot the machine
>> to get it working again but have found out if I just take the card out
>> and plug it back in it starts working again. Is anyone else having
>> this problem ? I don't know if it is total crap drivers from belkin
>> (probably), a problem with XP (probably) or if my aging D-Link AP is
>> going out to lunch.
>>
>> Help, this sucks and is driving me insane.
>
>What are your router settings?

Here is a netstat on the vaio:

netstat /r :

================================================== =========================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x40002 ...00 11 50 20 70 31 ...... Belkin Wireless Pre-N Notebook Network Card
================================================== =========================
================================================== =========================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.12 30
10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 10.0.0.12 10.0.0.12 30
10.0.0.12 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 30
10.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 10.0.0.12 10.0.0.12 30
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 10.0.0.12 10.0.0.12 30
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 10.0.0.12 10.0.0.12 1
Default Gateway: 10.0.0.1
================================================== =========================
Persistent Routes:
None

Route Table

Here is "show route" on my cisco 678:

cbos>show route
[TARGET] [MASK] [GATEWAY] [M][P] [TYPE] [IF] [AGE]
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 1 SA WAN0-0 0
10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 1 LA ETH0 0
209.98.0.0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 1 AR WAN0-0 0

WAN Interfaces...
209.98.82.69 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 1 HA WAN0-0 0

brainiac wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> wendy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>brainiac wrote:
>>
>>>I have a belkin pre-n wireless adapter in a vaio nvr23 laptop and it
>>>constantly loses the connection to my AP. I used to reboot the machine
>>>to get it working again but have found out if I just take the card out
>>>and plug it back in it starts working again. Is anyone else having
>>>this problem ? I don't know if it is total crap drivers from belkin
>>>(probably), a problem with XP (probably) or if my aging D-Link AP is
>>>going out to lunch.
>>>
>>>Help, this sucks and is driving me insane.
>>
>>What are your router settings?
>
>
> Here is a netstat on the vaio:

I'm sorry, i meant onthe belkin router. Certain settings aren't as
reliable as others. You want each packet acked for example. You might
want try playing with those settings.

I have the Belkin Wireless Pre-N network adapter, version 1000, in my Compaq
Evo N610c laptop. I use the Belkin Wireless Client Utility with 128 bit WEP
security encryption to configure the wireless connection. The Windows XP
Wireless Connection Utility did not connect with the WPA security. The
original network card driver was 1.2.0.68, and I upgraded it to version
1.2.0.80 a month ago. I installed the newer version without uninstalling
the original version. I then began to get constant drop-offs and couldn't
get the connection to stay up. In my frustrated phase, I called Belkin for
support and the support rep was drawing a blank and started to tell me to
use the Windows XP Wireless Connection Utility, even though Belkin
recommends using the Belkin Wireless Client Utility. When I told him that
the Windows XP Wireless Connection Utility had been a bust in the past, he
came up with the idea to uninstall the newer version since it had been
installed over the older version. I uninstalled all of the Belkin software,
installed
version 1.2.0.80, but still got the drop-offs. I then uninstalled
everything again, and reinstalled the original version, 1.2.0.68. My
connection is now consistent again.

"wendy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> brainiac wrote:
>> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> wendy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>brainiac wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a belkin pre-n wireless adapter in a vaio nvr23 laptop and it
>>>>constantly loses the connection to my AP. I used to reboot the machine
>>>>to get it working again but have found out if I just take the card out
>>>>and plug it back in it starts working again. Is anyone else having
>>>>this problem ? I don't know if it is total crap drivers from belkin
>>>>(probably), a problem with XP (probably) or if my aging D-Link AP is
>>>>going out to lunch.
>>>>
>>>>Help, this sucks and is driving me insane.
>>>
>>>What are your router settings?
>>
>>
>> Here is a netstat on the vaio:
>
> I'm sorry, i meant onthe belkin router. Certain settings aren't as
> reliable as others. You want each packet acked for example. You might want
> try playing with those settings.