How are you getting the cards to connest to the WAP?
Are you using the card's config util? Or XP's Wireless Zero Config?
Try using Boingo client (free) instead.....
www.boingo.com this
generally connects far better than otker methods and handles WEP.
Also try disabling XP's Wireless Zero Configuration service (Control panel,
Admin, services)...
Take a look at WEP Keygen
ttp://www.andrewscompanies.com/tools/wep.asp - this may resolve any
confusion about key length etc....
Guy
The Crow wrote:
> Hi.
> I don't know if anyone can help, or point me in the direction of a
> man who can, as the saying goes, but I'm seriously tearing my hair
> out, after an entire day of being messed around by my home network
> setup.
>
> Basically, here's the profile. A couple of months ago I bought a
> broadband adsl router and two wireless cards, one for each of the
> pc's at home. The router is plugged into the phone socket
> downstairs, and mine and my girlfriend's pc's are upstairs, in our
> respective offices. When I try and connect both pc's to the router,
> using their wireless cards, and no security, everything is fine.
>
> If I try and set up some kind of encription, be it WPA or WEP based,
> suddenly, things go wrong. One PC uses XP, and the other Win2K, but I
> downloaded a WPA utility for the Win2K machine, so it should cope.
>
> Just taking the one machine, the XP one, for simplicity's sake, I keep
> having trouble connecting to the router. Everything's fine, I'm all
> connected, and then I'll go to send an email or something, and
> Outlook will report, 'couldn't find server'. When I check in the
> system tray, my wireless icon says 'not connected'. If I call up the
> 'view available wireless' box, I can see my router listed, and when I
> click on it it says disconnected in the status section, but then,
> further down, it says 'you are connected to this netowrk. to
> disconnect, click' etc etc etc. The icon in the system tray claims
> 'not connected', but the available wireless list tells me I can only
> disconnect. Confusing? I have gained access to my router, and
> disabled the security, by restoring factory settings and configuring
> the WAN connection all over again, but the problem persists. About
> once every five minutes I just get kicked off the router. I run a
> software firewall, sygate, as well as the router's inherent firewall,
> and wonder if this is anything to do with the problem.
>
> I don't know a great deal about networking or wireless connectivity,
> and the router's mannual is crap, it's a D-Link. The same thing just
> keeps happening though. I'll establish a connection, go off and do
> some work, come back, and hey, I'm disconnected. Sometimes it will
> simply reconnect of it's own free will, sometimes not, sometimes I
> have to start from scratch by restoring the defaults on the router.
> And this is all without even turning the other pc on.
>
> I know this is a bit vague, but the mannual, as I say, is rubbish,
> and I'm not quite sure where to go for help. I wonder if there's a
> third party software sweet, other than Windows default networking
> software, that I could install on each of the two machines to
> administor and run the network and router connections, that might
> prove easier and better. Any ideas? Sometimes I can't get a page on
> Internet Explorer, and can't connect to my email server using
> Outlook, even though the icon in the system tray claims to be
> connected. It's just a total mystery to me.
>
> All I want to do is set up the router and two pc's, each with a
> wireless card, so taht each can access the router independantly of
> each other, regardless of whether both machines are on or off. I
> didn't know it would be so complex. Has this rambling rubbish made
> any sense, and can anyone help? Thanks.
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