Strange wireless "connectivity"

[reflection]

I am running Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Windows Firewall on Comcast cable with the Linksys BEFSR11 router and WAP11 Network Access Point and a Dell TrueMobile 1180 Internal 802.11b Mini PCI Card on my Inspiron 8200.

When connecting to my wireless router, which assigns ip addresses within our house to two computers, my taskbar icon will continuously say "Acquiring IP address". At this point, I will actually have internet connectivity, however it is very slow (a maximum of 13KBps down). I have taken my settings from ipconfig /all and manually inserted them into my TCP/IP adapter. This connects me to the Internet and I can download at my normal speed (a maximum of 400KBps down). However, every few hours I will lose access to the web, yet I will not be disconected from IRC (eg all ports work but 80 as far as I can tell). The only way I can get my web access back is to disable my wireless adapter and reenable it. At this point, even though my IP settings are manually configured, it will still say "Acquiring IP address". By going to my wireless adapter > properties > TCP/IP > properties > and then simply clicking OK without changing anything, windows again recognizes my manually configured IP settings.

Wash, rinse, repeat 2-3 times per day.

What can I do?

[VitoCorleone]

i had a similar problem and i did a lot o different things before it was ok so i'm not sure what was the reason. But i'll tell what i think helped. First of all check if you have the latest firmware on your router if not upgrade! Then assing static ip in your router config and use the same ip in your tcp/ip settings.

How far is the computer from the router? Try removing all obstacles on the signals way for exaple moving the router next to the pc, and see if it helps. Maybe your router is damaged.

Write if it helped. If not there's a couple of other things you can do before throwing it out of the window

hope it helped

[gamehead200]

http://www.astromike.com/wireless.html

This will help with your connectivity problems!