Booster Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Got a new laptop and after help from TSNers (years after everyone else) have gone wireless. Set up the router and the network, secured it and it seemed to be fine. Old laptop running XP works fine with a USB wireless adapter, new laptop works about 50% of startups. Connects and stays connected. Its running Vista. I have started it up tonight and the connection is very intermittent. A popup in the bottom right of the screen keeps saying: "Active area has changed. Active area: Local Network." Signal strength keeps goign from excellent to fair on vista pc but stays excellent on xp pc???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopsta Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Check the driver your using Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted October 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 IT idiot here How do I do that?? Its a Netgear DG834GT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byron13 Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Nah Driver for the laptop wireless adapter - look the laptop model up and look for drivers for 802.11x adapter. Poss not the best ones for Vista. Also try looking at the config of the router - you can experiment with the channel that the router uses to broadcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Have found a driver on the hp website that sounds like it will do the job [ QUOTE ] Fixes intermittent issue where the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection loses connection and becomes disabled while connected to an access point. [/ QUOTE ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Booster, if you continue to get this, change the channel number on the router (easy to do). They are all configured the same and if a house within your range is on the same channel it can cause drop-outs. PM me if you need instructions on changing it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Ah! That might be the case then. I can see two other wireless networks when I search. It is just a case of logging into the router? I seem to remember it being set to channel 11? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Yeah. Change it to channel 8 for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Went home at lunchtime and it worked fine so i think it is a channel issue. Have changed it on the router settings so I shall see how i get on. Cheers for the help all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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