sky netgear wifi query - help please

I have a Sky Netgear router, which works fine - except for wifi linking with
my Dell Inspiron laptop.

I can get the Dell internal wireless connection to work with various
routers, but not the Sky one. I've even tried switching off encryption
altogether. It attemps to make a connection - but just keeps dropping. My
brother and a friend have exactly the same problem with their Sky/Netgear
routers.

I found a solution by switching off the internal wireless adapter and using
a usb wifi dongle. That connects to the Sky router first time using WEP
encryption. I solved
the other 2 connections in the same way.

However, I am intrigued as to the reason the internal wifi adapter won't do
the job with the Sky/Netgear router, when it works with many others. I've
searched online and in newsgroups to no avail. Can anyone offer any
suggestions please.

> However, I am intrigued as to the reason the internal wifi adapter won't do
> the job with the Sky/Netgear router, when it works with many others.

I suspect the answer to this lies somewhere in this sentence;

"You use Vista, don't you ?"

There's a subtle clue to the route cause of the issues right there.

If only it were so easy, I'm using XP!

"Colin Wilson" <(E-Mail Removed) o.uk> wrote
in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> However, I am intrigued as to the reason the internal wifi adapter won't
>> do
>> the job with the Sky/Netgear router, when it works with many others.
>
> I suspect the answer to this lies somewhere in this sentence;
>
> "You use Vista, don't you ?"
>
> There's a subtle clue to the route cause of the issues right there.

The SSID is being broadcast, I've updated the drivers and I'm still
stumped - but, thanks for your reply.

"bod43" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:aaae7ee0-0934-47c4-93a0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> On 21 Aug, 16:43, Colin Wilson
> <REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgr...@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.c o.uk> wrote:
>> > However, I am intrigued as to the reason the internal wifi adapter
>> > won't do
>> > the job with the Sky/Netgear router, when it works with many others.
>>
>> I suspect the answer to this lies somewhere in this sentence;
>>
>> "You use Vista, don't you ?"
>>
>> There's a subtle clue to the route cause of the issues right there.
>
> I have seen a couple of things that may explain this.
> Well sort of explain.
>
> 1.
> Some systems seem to have problems when the
> ssid is "hidden".
>
> 2.
> Microsoft changed the way that DHCP is done with Vista.
> Do not know exactly what they changed or why.
> In this case the wireless would connect but
> then if dhcp fails no communications
> is possible. You can work around the latter with
> a static address/dns etc.
>
> By changing the wireless adapter you are also changing
> the driver. Maybe worth checking the driver version and
> considering changing the wireless management
> method in the PC. I do not really understand that
> side. Wireless Zero is something to look up.

In article <1Lgkm.79581$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...
> If only it were so easy, I'm using XP!
>
This is a stab in the dark, but I used to have a Netgear card in an
older build of XP. Wifi would fail if you didn't disable the QOS setting
for the wifi driver on the pc.

Might be worth a go if the option is still available.
Also, I've heard of people having all sorts of wifi problems with XP
after they installed SP3.
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> If only it were so easy, I'm using XP!

Damn, stumped then :-}

Does it work under linux ?