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djclintriley

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#34095 18-May-2009 14:36
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I hope you can help me with my little WEP dilemma I’m having…


 


At the moment, I have a Woosh broadband hooked into the recommended Netgear Wireless Router which connects to my Netgear network card which is plugged into my PCMCIA slot on my laptop and is all connecting sweet via WPSA2 encryption.  


 


What I want to do is to be able to connect my Nintendo DS to my router so I can play/complete tasks online.


 


Now for those of you who have a DS online, you will know that you can only connect via WEP encryption.   So knowing this I reset my Netgear router to WEP and was able to successfully connect my DS (as well as my iPhone) to my router with no issues.


 


The issue however, was with my laptop.   At first, windows would not connect to the router but instead, the netgear agent that sits in my tool bar was connecting instead.   That was fine and it worked – all for about 5 minutes!!!   After 5 minutes it would then drop out and I would need to then hit connect through the Windows Wireless Connection agent to encourage the Netgear agent to connect to the router again.


 


I guess what I need help on is configuring windows to take control of the wireless connection again via WEP so it will stop dropping out as I imagine the actual issue is that windows is conflicting with the netgear agent and trying to take control…


 


Any help would be much appreciated!!!


 


Thanks


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  #215658 18-May-2009 18:03
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Assuming this is xp or vista you probably don't even need the netgear software.  Just use the windows inbuilt wireless manager/service eg:

1: Use the task manager to end the netgear software's application or process.

2: Stop the Netgear software from running at startup (use sysinternals autoruns if you don't know how to do that manually via the registry or windows services console).

3: Ensure the Windows service "Wireless Zero Configuration" is enabled and running (can use autoruns for that too)

Sysinternals Autoruns
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx




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