My wireless adapter is having all sorts of problems.  I travel back and forth between the wireless access at my campus and the wireless in my apartment.  When I bring my machine out of hybernation, at either place,  I often have trouble getting the machine to pick up on the wireless connection.  Sometimes I try to turn the wireless switch off then on again, but it rarely actually fixes it.  When it acts up, it usually requires a reboot before it picks up on it. 
The other annoying thing is even after it does pick up on the wireless internet connection, it will say its connected in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.  I’ll then open internet explorer, and my homepage (this forum) doesn’t come up. The browser says there is no internet connection, but if I type in a URL manually it will (sometimes) come up.  If this doesn’t work I have to go into command prompt and do an “ipconfig /renew”.  Thats the only way I know that I’m finally connected to the internet. 

So, would doing the upgrade on the wireless adapter fix this?  Any ideas?
Its the most annoying thing about my machine.

[quote author=“blarneylad”]My wireless adapter is having all sorts of problems.  I travel back and forth between the wireless access at my campus and the wireless in my apartment.  When I bring my machine out of hybernation, at either place,  I often have trouble getting the machine to pick up on the wireless connection.  Sometimes I try to turn the wireless switch off then on again, but it rarely actually fixes it.  When it acts up, it usually requires a reboot before it picks up on it. 
The other annoying thing is even after it does pick up on the wireless internet connection, it will say its connected in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.  I’ll then open internet explorer, and my homepage (this forum) doesn’t come up. The browser says there is no internet connection, but if I type in a URL manually it will (sometimes) come up.  If this doesn’t work I have to go into command prompt and do an “ipconfig /renew”.  Thats the only way I know that I’m finally connected to the internet. 

So, would doing the upgrade on the wireless adapter fix this?  Any ideas?
Its the most annoying thing about my machine.

First try to turn on the PC with the WiFi off…once its booted up then turn it on.

Erik

[quote author=“tifosiv122”][quote author=“blarneylad”]My wireless adapter is having all sorts of problems.  I travel back and forth between the wireless access at my campus and the wireless in my apartment.  When I bring my machine out of hybernation, at either place,  I often have trouble getting the machine to pick up on the wireless connection.  Sometimes I try to turn the wireless switch off then on again, but it rarely actually fixes it.  When it acts up, it usually requires a reboot before it picks up on it. 
The other annoying thing is even after it does pick up on the wireless internet connection, it will say its connected in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.  I’ll then open internet explorer, and my homepage (this forum) doesn’t come up. The browser says there is no internet connection, but if I type in a URL manually it will (sometimes) come up.  If this doesn’t work I have to go into command prompt and do an “ipconfig /renew”.  Thats the only way I know that I’m finally connected to the internet. 

So, would doing the upgrade on the wireless adapter fix this?  Any ideas?
Its the most annoying thing about my machine.

First try to turn on the PC with the WiFi off…once its booted up then turn it on.

Erik

what difference does this make Erik ..?

I’ve noticed that sometimes the connection doesnt work when booted up with it on…if I boot when it’s shut and turn on when its fully booted i’ve never had a problem.

When the switch is on it loads the drivers {software} for the card into memory…when the bootup happens some times not all drivers load…IMO its skipping the driver or corrupting it somehow.

Erik

I thought it might be something like that, but it doesnt seem to be.  If anything, its getting worse.  Now, even if I am able to get a connection, it will drop off randomly, even if I am in a location where I know there is a strong signal.  I find myself having to constantly go to google just to make sure that I’m actually connected to the internet, and its just the load time that i’m waiting for instead of looking for a nonexistant connection.  But then, if I go into Ipconfig and refresh the IP information, or sometimes just close and reopen the browser, it will get better.  Sometimes it doesnt and I will need to reboot. 

Also, every time I boot up (no matter what way I shut down), the computer gets to the windows screen then hybernates automatically.  Thats obviously really frustrating.  But when I restart it again, it will boot up normally.  Any ideas?

Thanks.

Have you tried enabling/disabling the ‘Enable 802.xx authentication for this network’ box under Wireless Connection Properties? I had the problems you did ( though not as severe) and that seemed to help a bit.

~nox

I don’t have that option checked for either one of the networks I usually use.  There is one on campus, and one at the apartment.  The one on campus requires an encryption key, the other one doesnt.  But either way, I feel like I get poor reception or that it loses the DNS information or something.  Its very strange.  I was tempted to try upgrading the wireless adapter to the A/B/G and see if it helped, because I recall someone had mentioned they got great reception after the upgrade.