Good wifi after ......

I have an Airlink101 MIMO adaptor, not router and Win98se. When I start up
IE6, the wifi program finds and lists the available networks and may or may
not connect to one. After having it on for a while, it disconnect and
indicates no connection by way of the red indication in the system tray. I
then get a reliable, much faster connection.I don't know what is happening
but I would like to go directly to the faster connection. This works
consistently. When it first operated like this, I would get a message that
there is a Ip address conflict with machine, but I don't get this anymore
which is fine with me.
Does anyone have an explanation




B James

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:41:33 -0800, "B James" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I have an Airlink101 MIMO adaptor, not router and Win98se.

Which one?
http://www.airlink101.com/products/adapter.html
Randomly digging through the docs, I don't see any supplied Windoze
98SE adapters for the PCMCIA or USB client MIMO adapters.

>When I start up
>IE6, the wifi program finds and lists the available networks and may or may
>not connect to one.

Well, some networks are password protected to keep random users out.
Are these SSID's that it finds your own systems, or are you trying to
use the neighbors wi-fi connections?

>After having it on for a while, it disconnect and
>indicates no connection by way of the red indication in the system tray.

If the "a while" is about 45 seconds, what's happening is that your
computer cannot get a connection and/or a DHCP address and will
eventually give up trying to connect. You might want to do your
testing using your own access point or router. If you don't have one,
try going to a free wireless hotspot in your neighborhood and trying
it there.

>I then get a reliable, much faster connection.

That makes no sense. If it's red, I presume it means you're NOT
connected to the internet. Yet, you appear to have connectivity. Is
there some other path to the internet on this machine such a wired
ethernet connection? When you say "then", does that mean the
indicator goes green when you get your faster connection?

>I don't know what is happening
>but I would like to go directly to the faster connection.

You're apparently not using Windoze Wireless Zero Config which has a
preferred SSID setting. I'm not familiar with the Airlink drivers but
I suspect it might have something similar. Possibly, there is a
"profile" feature which saves the setting for a specific SSID to make
it easier to return later.

>This works
>consistently. When it first operated like this, I would get a message that
>there is a Ip address conflict with machine, but I don't get this anymore
>which is fine with me.

That probably means you have your wireless card setup for a static IP
address. The access point you connected to apparently already had a
machine with that IP address running on it. I suggest you switch back
to DHCP.

>Does anyone have an explanation

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