I recently bought a brand new Dell inspiron 6000 laptop with in built centrino wireless. When I tried to connect my existing wireless network in my house I was constantly getting disconnected! I then took my laptop to my brothers, logged onto his wireless network, and it was fine! I then decided to buy a new Netgear router and re-setup my wireless network. My laptop connected perfectly and for a day or so my wireless network was fantastic! Now however, 3 days after setting it up, once again I am getting disconnected every 10 minutes! Any suggestions as to why this is happening??

Originally Posted by paulmzr

I recently bought a brand new Dell inspiron 6000 laptop with in built centrino wireless. When I tried to connect my existing wireless network in my house I was constantly getting disconnected! I then took my laptop to my brothers, logged onto his wireless network, and it was fine! I then decided to buy a new Netgear router and re-setup my wireless network. My laptop connected perfectly and for a day or so my wireless network was fantastic! Now however, 3 days after setting it up, once again I am getting disconnected every 10 minutes! Any suggestions as to why this is happening??

Do you configure your laptop with the windows xp wireless management tool? If so by default it will try to connect to the strongest signal available and might try to connect to a neighbouring signal, there by dropping your connection. Download a utility called netstumbler and run it on your laptop. It will show the available wireless networks in the area and also the strength of your own signal in greater detail than the windows utility. If there is no problem with the signal try using the configuration utility that came with Wi-Fi chipset on your laptop. You should have one on a cd with the laptop, if not download it from their website. These utilities are more advanced and will sometimes lock on to the connection better than the windows one. Configure it to lock on to your own connection only and not to look for the strongest signal. I hope these suggestions might help.