Intermittent Wireless Connectivity

Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

I have several wireless clients connecting to Win2K3 server.
Intermittently, the wireless connection is dropped and usually cannot be
restored unless I re-enter the WEP key on the client machine.

Some T/S'ing I've done thus far to try to isolate the problem:
Users accounts work fine on wired clients.
When the wireless machines are hard wired to the network, connectivity is
fine.
When the wireless machines are taken off the domain and placed in a "dummy"
workgroup, connectivity is fine but of course they are not authenticating to
the domain and therefore have no access to resources other than the internet.

Seems to be some sort of wireless/AD issue. I have set up a wireless
security policy since this problem began but no change. I'm sure this is a
simple fix but I just don't know what direction to look at this point.

--
Gary

There is a setting in the wireless network properties [at least on XP] for
enable fast reconnect if you are using 802.1X. Also if using 802.1X there
are settings in the Remote Access Policy for idle time and restrict maximum
session time that you want to tweak. Many wireless network adapters can also
use a power down mode that can cause weird problems though I don't know why
it would be limited to a domain environment. There is also an active
Microsoft wireless newsgroup where you may want to post. --- Steve


"Gary" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I have several wireless clients connecting to Win2K3 server.
> Intermittently, the wireless connection is dropped and usually cannot be
> restored unless I re-enter the WEP key on the client machine.
>
> Some T/S'ing I've done thus far to try to isolate the problem:
> Users accounts work fine on wired clients.
> When the wireless machines are hard wired to the network, connectivity is
> fine.
> When the wireless machines are taken off the domain and placed in a
> "dummy"
> workgroup, connectivity is fine but of course they are not authenticating
> to
> the domain and therefore have no access to resources other than the
> internet.
>
> Seems to be some sort of wireless/AD issue. I have set up a wireless
> security policy since this problem began but no change. I'm sure this is
> a
> simple fix but I just don't know what direction to look at this point.
>
> --
> Gary