Re: Problems with a new notebook and wireless at home

[Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Bill <bubbzbill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I couldn't remember if  you'd solved this or not, but I found a quite
> interesting blurb on a website today that sounds applicable.
> http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm
>
> "Windows' "Wireless Zero Configuration" service periodically drops and
> restarts wireless connections in a misguides attempt to check for a
> "better" access point to connect with. Wizmo's "wanlock" command simply
> stops this service to prevent this annoying behavior."


Good find, Bill!  In my prior post I mentioned that I disabled the
ThinkVantage stuff, and I'm still going good, but I had noticed, very
infrequently, that my network would disconnect on occasion (both the old and
new laptops).  What was odd was that the signal is almost always "Extremely
Good", and I couldn't imagine how such a good signal could drop to the point
that it disconnects.  This might explain it, although I am stumped as to why
Windoze would do such a thing.  I mean, it knows that there's a connection,
it surely can detect activity, what the h*ll are they thinking?

Also interesting that Wizmo was last enhanced in 2002 before adding the
wanlock and wanopen options a few weeks ago.

- Dan