Hi folks, I have a laptop running Windows 2000 (Dell inspiron 8100) and another also running Windows 2000 (Quantex-something-or-other) and another running Windows 98 (ancient Dell P5). I use the same wireless PCMCIA NIC: a Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card Model WPC11 v2.5 in all three machines. The base station is a Linksys WAP11.
Normally I have fine performance. However, if the laptop is suspended and then resumed, wireless performance falls through the floor- it still works but at about 600bytes/sec. The wireless properties page says that the connection is fine; full strength. The only way I have found to fix it is to unplug and replug the wireless base station- rebooting the laptop does not fix it. Nor does ejecting the PCMCIA card and reinserting it. My suspicion is that the wireless base station gets confused when a laptop suspends and by power-cycling it fully renegotiates with the client. Has anybody else observed it? A google search didn't bring up anything relevant (but maybe I used the wrong search terms). I have never had this problem with a Cisco WAP at work, so I strongly suspect the base station. I did upgrade to the latest WAP firmware about 3-4 months ago, and there is no newer firmware. Dave -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
