Wireless connection keeps dropping out?

Wireless connection keeps dropping out?

• I have a zoom modem and linksys wireless-g router. We have a mac and a pc at home. We've had the modem and the router about a year (maybe less). In the last few weeks, the ...show more

• Answer:

  Check your wireless power settings The first thing you'll want to do to prevent your wireless connection from dropping is to see if your computer is managing your wireless card's power. It may be instructed to shut off your wireless connectivity after a certain amount of idle time goes by. If you have system specific utilities, such as Dell's Quickset, make sure that the wireless power management isn't set to shut off the card if your computer is idle for a certain period of time. Second you'll want to check the settings on your wireless card via your device manager. In Windows XP: •Right-click on "My Computer" and select "Properties" •Select "Hardware" and click on "Device Manager" •Find your wireless card under "Network adapters" and double-click it. •Verify that there aren't any auto power management settings enabled that might be shutting your card down prematurely. Power cycle your hardware Another thing to try is to simply shut down all your hardware - ie. your PC, your modem, your router, your laptop, etc. - anything on the network. Then power them back on in the following order: modem -> router -> PC (wired) -> laptop (wireless) and see if that fixes the issue. Update your router firmware and wireless card drivers If all of the above hasn't prevented your wireless connection from dropping, you'll want to update the firmware of your wireless router, and you'll want to update your wireless card drivers. This should solve the problem most of the time. Save Time and Find the Right Driver with Driver Robot Make sure you find the wireless driver that matches your hardware configuration by using Driver Robot. It has the industry's best hardware detection, and correctly identifies 100% of all consumer hardware devices. You can download a free driver scan now and see if the wireless driver was the culprit. If the driver update doesn't solve your connection issues, or if the connection still drops on occasion, try adjusting your wireless router settings as follows: Adjust your wireless router settings •Lower the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) from 1500 to 1492 or less (usually found on your router's main/ basic setup page) •Adjust the following advanced wireless settings: ◦Lower the beacon interval from 100 to 50 ◦Lower the fragmentation threshold from 2346 to 2306 ◦Lower the RTS threshold from 2347 to 2304 Voila :) That should solve your wireless connectivity problems and should prevent your wireless connection from dropping. Wireless connection drops every couple seconds If your wireless connection connect, then disconnect, then connect again, only to disconnect two seconds later, and so on and so forth? It could be that your PC is trying to find an IP address and the DHCP server (which hands out IP addresses) isn't cooperating or isn't finding one. If you're using Windows, open a command prompt by browsing to Start -> Run -> and type in "cmd.exe" In the command prompt window, type the following: "ipconfig.exe /release" followed by "ipconfig.exe /renew" You'll get a status message that may help you pinpoint the issue. If you can get your wireless adapter to connect without security encryption set (ie. WEP or WPA), but it drops every couple seconds when you use WPA mode, try updating the network card driver's firmware. We had a similar experience on a Dell Inspiron laptop. The included Intel Pro 2200BG network card worked for a couple years, but then every time we'd take it to a public Internet location, connect via WiFi, then bring it back home to connect to our WPA network, the connection drop issues would resume. If that doesn't do the trick, you will need to reset your router. I THINK THIS WILL BE HELPFUL TO YOU.......