It's a fresh XP SP2 install, never been on the net, so I doubt it's a
virus. Also, it does it with the wireless switched off at the router.
It's like the card interferes with the router somehow.
Coenraad Loubser wrote:
> *Its probably not the PCMCIA card, but the Windows XP it's running
on.. or
> more specifically, the virus on the Windows XP. I've had the same
thing
> happen to my network, and eventually narrowed it down to this one PC
being
> online - wired or wireless. What it does is it just hogs the network
with
> garbage traffic. Can't remember the virus name though.. some blaster
> variant?
>
> Thats my guess.. try the card in another machine?
> Wire up the laptop
>
> See if the same happens... if it does u know!
>
>
> "Jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) oups.com...
> > I have a no name 802.11b PCMCIA card that brings down my Netgear
router
> > every time I turn it on. Even if I disable the wireless part of the
> > router, it still brings it down. Even the hard wired nodes lose
their
> > connectivity. If I turn the NIC off, the router recovers in a few
> > minutes. Anyone ever seen this before? I tried switching wireless
> > channels, but it didn't have any effect. Very strange...
> >
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