Wireless constantly drops out

[Tigger4Me]

Set up is BT 8 MB broadband through BT Voyager 2110 wireless router.

Acer Aspire 5024WLMi laptop with Broadcom 802.11 b/g wireless LAN.

Running Windows XP Home Edition.

The problem is that until recently this was a hard wired set-up. Since installing the Voyager 2110 the wireless connection drops out every 8 mins and 50 secs. No ifs or buts, constantly every 8:50 all day and night. Yes! I sat up till 3 just to try it out.

If I connect the 2110 via Ethernet the connection is rock solid.

Any techie any ideas please?

[EI-WAT]

More than likely someone is connecting with the same channel near you, best thing is to change the channel on the router and see if that does anything

[Jerricho]

My old laptop did the exact same thing, and I could never work out why.

[JamesT73J]

1)Have a look at your event viewer:

control panel>Administrative tools>Event viewer

Check the system logs. A lot of jargon in there, but it can yield some interesting clues, and includes precise timings.

2) Do you have any processes that execute at the same interval?

James

[Tigger4Me]

Thanks for the replies.

I've tried all 13 channels now - no better.

I'm not a techie James but have followed your tip and the event log suggested that the onboard network adapter driver could need updating. I have done that but still having the same problem.

I'm not aware of any processes executing at these times. ould there be a conflict with Norton AV?

[Saab Dastard]

If you have both Windows AND the wifi card vendor's software managing the wifi connection at the same time it can cause conflicts. If this is the case, disable one.

SD