Cisco 871 - Multiple wireless dropouts per miniute

Only occurs with Wireless connections, wired connection don't have this problem. I am getting this message on a WindowsXP sp2 (windows fw off, ZoneAlarm on) - Compaq V2582 internal wireless adapter. Also on a IBM thinkpad w2k sp4, USR5410 (tried upgrading the fw/sw).

[The system detected that network adapter \\DEVICE\\TCPIP_{8AE478EE-AEB2-4204-952B-4CA03C1F3CB3} was connected to the network, and has initiated normal operation over the network adapter.]

Occurs 2 to 4 times per minute, almost exactly to the second. This only happens when connected to the 871 - not when connected to a Linksys.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!! FrankM

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Hi Frank,

You may wish to investigate the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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Sincerely,

Brad Reese Cisco Repair

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Did that - The only article that came close was on auto/auto vs fixed speed/duplex. I'm not sure that this would work on a wireless connection. How do I use - RATE / [Use Best Rate,54 etc] in conjunction with 871 settings?

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I will take the liberty of asuming that both fm's recent threads are about the same topic.

Use your SmartNet to open a TAC case. They /WILL/ most likely fix it.

In the interim:-

I have used WPA without too much problem. I have a lot of Cisco experience but not with wireless.

You have:- interface Dot11Radio0 no ip address ! encryption key 1 size 128bit 7 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx transmit-key encryption mode wep mandatory ! ssid XXXX authentication open eap eap-methods ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This one worries me. I think that to get this working you need a RADIUS server.

! speed basic-1.0 basic-2.0 basic-5.5 6.0 9.0 basic-11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0

36.0 48.0 54.0

station-role root no cdp enable bridge-group 1 bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled

Here is my whole Radio config.

interface Dot11Radio0 no ip address ! encryption mode ciphers tkip ! ssid HR authentication open authentication key-management wpa wpa-psk ascii 7 xxxxxxx ! speed basic-1.0 basic-2.0 basic-5.5 6.0 9.0 basic-11.0 basic-12.0 basic-18.0 basic-24.0 !^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ! I had some problems with interface unreliability and ! tried this. DOn't ask me why - I guess I wanted to simplify !things a bit and to knock out the top rate.

station-role root no dot11 extension aironet !^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ! Unless you are using Cisco cards in the PCs ! and you do not seem to be I would put this in.

no cdp enable bridge-group 1 bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source no bridge-group 1 source-learning no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding

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