Hanging on Acquiring Network Address

Been having loads of dropped connections these past few days. On both PC's
it says 'Signal Strength' excellent and Status as connected but can't easily
get by the Acquiring Network Address stage despite repetitively unplugging
and replugging router.
Two PCs on XP Pro and Belkin router.
Any ideas?

Ken

On 13-Aug-2006, "Ken" <Reply to NG only> wrote:

> Been having loads of dropped connections these past few days. On both PC's
> it says 'Signal Strength' excellent and Status as connected but can't easily
> get by the Acquiring Network Address stage despite repetitively unplugging
> and replugging router.
> Two PCs on XP Pro and Belkin router.
> Any ideas?

DHCP flakey, try static addresses.
When it is connected start from Accessories -> Command Prompt
and enter command ipconfig /all
Use the result to set up the static addresses.
Let Windows Manage My Connection, the Zero Config mode,
can be a source of these problems.
To set static addresses you just untick the "Let Windows
manage my connection" check box. You can go back to
Zero Config at any time by re-ticking it.

Your networks adapter signal strength and signal quality
figures may be a better guide than "Signal Strength" excellent.
You can have 5% signal strength and 15% signal quality and
Zero Config still reports excellent, but won't give a stable connect.

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:29:09 +0100, "Ken" <Reply to NG only> wrote:

>Been having loads of dropped connections these past few days. On both PC's
>it says 'Signal Strength' excellent and Status as connected but can't easily
>get by the Acquiring Network Address stage despite repetitively unplugging
>and replugging router.
>Two PCs on XP Pro and Belkin router.
>Any ideas?
>
>Ken
>
>

I'm having trouble with my Belkin 7632 router on wireless. ADSL speed
tests show around 100k when on wireless but if I plug my laptop into
an ethernet port I get around 970k (I'm on 1Meg). The wireless
connection is usually reported at 54mbps.

The laptop also won't pick up an IP until I right click the systray
icon and do a repair and then it's fine.

I have a wireless phone system in the house and also a video sender so
I put it down to interference.

Ken wrote:
> Been having loads of dropped connections these past few days. On both PC's
> it says 'Signal Strength' excellent and Status as connected but can't
> easily
> get by the Acquiring Network Address stage despite repetitively unplugging
> and replugging router.
> Two PCs on XP Pro and Belkin router.
> Any ideas?
>
> Ken

Belkin routers have a generic solution. Find your receipt and take it back
for a replacement, which give it a three to nine months will also fail.

Gaz

In message <44ded4d5$0$26591$(E-Mail Removed)>, Ken
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Been having loads of dropped connections these past few days. On both PC's
>it says 'Signal Strength' excellent and Status as connected but can't easily
>get by the Acquiring Network Address stage despite repetitively unplugging
>and replugging router.
>Two PCs on XP Pro and Belkin router.
>Any ideas?
Using WPA? Try resetting the key, copy and paste from the router whilst
connected with a patch cable, also make sure it's *your* router you're
connecting to, change the SSID on your router to something specific to
yourself if it's still on the default one.
>Ken
>
>
>

--
Clint Sharp

"Ken" <Reply to NG only> wrote in message
news:44ded4d5$0$26591$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Been having loads of dropped connections these past few days. On both PC's
> it says 'Signal Strength' excellent and Status as connected but can't
> easily get by the Acquiring Network Address stage despite repetitively
> unplugging and replugging router.
> Two PCs on XP Pro and Belkin router.
> Any ideas?
>
> Ken
>
>
>
I get the same sometimes and have so far had two DLINK and one NETGEAR
router. So it looks like a major fault/feature of Windows XP. I also get
the one were the wireless icon has a big cross through it and I can see the
name of the connection but no signal strength. Switching the router off and
on again seems to wake Windows XP up and it registers. Definitely Windows
XP and something to do with the "cache". If I right clicked on the icon and
selected REPAIR it always would, but I have started using the manufacturers
wireless card program and it appears worse!

On 13-Aug-2006, "simon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I get the same sometimes and have so far had two DLINK and one NETGEAR
> router. So it looks like a major fault/feature of Windows XP.

I suspect that DHCP to aquire network addresses is a one attempt operation,
if it fails to get a response in time it just sits there in an unconected state
until you do a repair, or a reboot.
Putting in static addresses seems to eliminate the need
for DHCP and a lot of problems clear up.
The only problem might arise is with mobile laptops where you need
DHCP to connect to public hotspots, but for this you can reenable
Zero Config. For the home network you don't really need DHCP and
keep leasing/renewing addresses, it's a static environment.