Help Reqd-Am getting disconnected within 3 mins from wireless network

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com hath wroth:

Dunno. Some possibilities:

1. The Barricad Plus has some kind of intrusion detection setting that is often responsible for breaking connections if it thinks you're doing something wrong. Turn it off and see if it helps.

1. Try to determine if it's a WPA key renewal issue. Temporarily switch OFF encryption and see if that helps.

2. Try it with a different wireless laptop. Drag over a friend's laptop and see if it does the same thing. It might be something on the client end, but it's difficult to tell.

1. I vaguely recall that the SMC7004WFW has a log page. Look at the log page at the time of disconnect and see if it says anything useful. It will usually give you who initiated the disconnect and possibly why.

I had an SMC 7004WFW in use for a few years. I connected WinME and Win2000 to it without much problem. WinXP would cause the WiFi to die after a couple of hours. I tried different WinXP machines, including the upgraded laptop that used to work fine with Win2000. I took the SMC to work, where the same problem existed if WinXP was connected.

I gave up and bought a Netgear for home.

Three minutes, on the other hand, sounds like a familiar problem with

802.1x authentication. You didn't mention the OS involved, or the encryption used. You might just want to disable 802.1x in the WiFi configuration.

Really? I wouldn't refer to code from 2004 as an upgrade. This router has been discontinued from SMC for a long time.