I bought a Belkin wireless router and PCACIA card a few weeks ago, and after several hours of swearing and phone calls to their technical support service, the thing is working beautifully! :)

However, I still have a small problem with it. :( Every time I close the laptop (putting it into standby mode) and then turn back on, I lose my internet connection and have to reboot.

The thing I can't understand is that the system tells me the laptop is communicating with the router, and if I go to the router configuration page, it says the internet connection is active. It even lets me kill the connection, and reconnect, but won't open up any internet pages.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help! :thumbsup:

K x

Interesting... all the laptops I've used will search for a wireless signal when they come out of standby mode, but it can take up to a minute to detect.

Are you using Windows XP? What service pack?

We had best results with Windows XP service pack 2, and the worst results with Windows 2000.

Does it keep the DHCP address when it comes out of standby?

Thanks for your reply Abdul! Unfortunately, I didn't understand a lot of it, pass me an abacus anyday! :blush:

I'm using XP Home edition, but I don't know about Service Packs. I always download everything it suggests if that's what you mean. (MS updates I mean)

When I switch back on, the 'little green light' where the taskbar icons are is still green, and says:

Wireless Network Connection: (Belkin 54g)
Speed: 48 Mbps
Signal Strength: Excellent

Apologies if I'm making myself sound like a proper numptie! ;)

I've had the same problem on three different laptops. I think it is to do with the card your using at the time. Mine wont even power up once it's been in standby.
Now i just don't use the standby mode :?

My little symbol stays in the corner (the one that looks like a tv) and I just right click it and click on "View available wireless networks" then if my network isn't showing up, I click "Refresh network list" and connect......

I used to have exactly the same problem - belkin wireless router, belkin pcmcia card, win XP service pack 1 and 2.

You might actually have more luck using windows to manage the wireless network instead of that Belkin tool (I assume that's the "little green light" you're talking about).

Failing that, don't put it in standby :)

I have one thing to say to you Kristian: Joelc

Heartily recommend him! And all you need is a crate of Stella (or anything, really hehe) and he's yours.

In my grateful experience anyway.

:D

Originally posted by SHsheff
I have one thing to say to you Kristian: Joelc

Heartily recommend him! And all you need is a crate of Stella (or anything, really hehe) and he's yours.

In my grateful experience anyway.

:D

I still got his coat here, perhaps I could use it as ransom? :D ;)

Thanks everyone for your advice so far. Clearly I'm no tech-wizard, but I was wondering if it is something to do with the power settings or something like that? :confused:

you can find that some devices do not play well with standby and hibernate. But anything <2 years old should behave.

As someone said, try using W0C instead of the belkin drivers.

Entirely agree with SHsheff. JoelC is excellent and really great company as well.

Hi,

I had a similar problem using a Belkin PCMCIA card with a D-Link router. Eventually solved it by finding the DNS address from the router and entering it into the wireless adapter's settings instead of letting it get it automatically.

To see if this is the problem, next time you lose your internet connection try going into the router's configuration menu. You'll have to go into your web browser and point it to http://192.168.0.1 or something similar (look in the instructions). If this works then it is almost certainly a DNS problem and entering the address manually should fix it. If it doesn't work then it's probably some kind of power saving settings issue.

on the subject of laptops im thinking of getting a laptop whats got a wireless connection to the internet so is it just a case of turning the laptop on and it picks up the broadband ive already got

sorry for been thick im not with it today:loopy:

Originally posted by Cyclone
you can find that some devices do not play well with standby and hibernate. But anything <2 years old should behave.

True. Something similar happened with an IBM Netfinity server of ours, running Windows 2000 Server!

Check out the properties for the card in device manager, under Control Panel\ System\ Hardware

Is there an option to disable power saving for the wireless card?

Originally posted by panda79
on the subject of laptops im thinking of getting a laptop whats got a wireless connection to the internet so is it just a case of turning the laptop on and it picks up the broadband ive already got


Probably not.