stability of wireless networking

Just want to get a feel for whether my experience is normal. I'm
connecting a Netgear WAP to an IBM centrino laptop running XP. I
normally get a signal strentgh of excellent at my desk down to very
good or good over the rest of the house.

However, every so often the connection drops completely, XP flashes up
it's 'a network connection is unplugged' message, then the connection
is regained. This isnt too much of a nuisance at the moment but is
putting me off the purchase of any wireless music streaming devices
that i've been looking at. [in fact the connection has just done
dropped as i write this].

I've not been able to link it to any outside event such as a car going
past. A moment ago there was complete silence here. Is this
behaiviour normal or symptomatic of something?

On 30 Aug 2004 01:27:22 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (anthony james)
wrote:

>I've not been able to link it to any outside event such as a car going
>past. A moment ago there was complete silence here. Is this
>behaiviour normal or symptomatic of something?

I'm not sure it isn't a windows thing - refreshing the connection and
requesting a new DHCP lease on a periodic basis.

I have XP laptops that do that but a 98SE desktop is 100% solid
connection just like its wired.

Phil
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"Phil Thompson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 30 Aug 2004 01:27:22 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (anthony james)
> wrote:
>
>>I've not been able to link it to any outside event such as a car going
>>past. A moment ago there was complete silence here. Is this
>>behaiviour normal or symptomatic of something?
>
> I'm not sure it isn't a windows thing - refreshing the connection and
> requesting a new DHCP lease on a periodic basis.
>
> I have XP laptops that do that but a 98SE desktop is 100% solid
> connection just like its wired.
>

I have a Laptop (XP Pro) that has a netgear card in it (OP has netgear
router) and it does the same thing.... or did under SP1, not yet tried
it under SP2. Will see how it goes at the weekend i think tho.
G