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I have a Belkin 802.11g router and trying to upgrade everything to wireless g from a b network I have had for the past two years.
Just bought a Microsoft MN-730 wireless g PCI adapter and hooked it up to my secondary PC. Eveything went well wexcept that I cannot connect to my network. The signal light on the PCI is blinking, which indicates that it is at least fuctioning? It appears that on the utility page of the PCI adapter I'm getting a signal up to the stated 54Mbps, but this is the oddity, packets are being sent but not received.
Can someone please help me resolve this issue.
I have the same thing happening (well, my friend does, but I get to fix it) with the exact same card, but on a D-link 802.11b router, odd part is, it sends packets, but never receives any, and it establishes a strong connection, pings to the router work (it also gets a DHCP address, and the DNS address and all it needs), but it won't bring up web pages anymore, it used to work fine for a couple weeks, then suddenly stopped working, resetting the router, reinstalling the MN-730 card, and all things I tried haven't worked.....any ideas what happened or whats wrong??? Tomorrow I am going to go over there with my linksys 802.11b router/access point and laptop with a linksys b card and try to figure out if its his router or his card/pc.......hopefully I can find a solution with my extra stuff to test with, but I am still curious what is wrong with it. Why would it just stop working? The d-link has been acting pretty odd when I was trying to reset and change its settings, it would stop responding to its login screens and admin pages, and also wouldn't reboot properly unless I tried multiple times....its probably dying, and its only 3 weeks old.
Glad I'm not the only having this problem with the Microsoft networking. I will look forward to your answer when you are able to solve this issue pertaining to this brand PCI adapter.
I guess in the meantime I will try the MSFT site and see what I can read up on this.
Yeah I will post what I find pertaining to this problem tomorrow night after I have conducted my troubleshooting.....hopefully an answer/solution will be found quickly.....
Ok I almost forgot to come back and post my results, I figured out that my friend had infact reset his d-link using the little pinhole reset button on the back, instead of just a power-off/power-on cycle, which reset it to factory defaults, he has a SpeedStream modem that gives a DHCP address of 192.168.0.1, which ironically, is the one also used by the d-link, so when both are connected together, it essentially locked them up, because they were fighting over the use of that IP for the gateway/DNS stuff.....so all I did was set the routers gateway address to 192.168.10.1, and left the modem alone, rebooted both, and...it worked! Back to normal, my laptop connected right to his network and was online, and so was his pc upstairs with the MN-730 card. One last reboot of the router solved the issue with the connection dropping out and slowing down (it did that before so we knew what to do), and now its been on over a day fast and smooth. If yours is not receiving packets, go into the belkin's config pages to where it lists the connected wireless adapters, if yours isn't listed in there (the pc with the MN-730) then the problem is something with the card/pc. The fact that it has a connection link does sound like its just a setting issue on the pc though, the microsoft networking stuff are pretty good products, his has full "excellent" signal strength a whole floor away from the d-link........try making sure that all the network settings on your pc are set properly, is it getting an IP address from the belkin? If it has the address and DNS ect...then it has got to be a problem in windows......hope this helps.....
Thanks for the info, PAWO. I did get the PCI to work and the reception is excellent between the Belkin router and this PCI card.
TeuffelHunden
08-03-04, 05:10 PM
what kind of security encryption are you using on the wireless network?
Also, firewalls are a known menace to wireless networks...especially the one that's built into XP. Try disabling it if you can and see if that helps any.
what kind of security encryption are you using on the wireless network?
Also, firewalls are a known menace to wireless networks...especially the one that's built into XP. Try disabling it if you can and see if that helps any.
I have SSID disabled, MAC address filtering enabled, WAN ping off, XP firewall on and have software firewall on, too. So, everything is working fine at the moment and I will configure security setting very soon.
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