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my wireless radio keeps turning off on me all of a suddden. I just started letting windows handle my connection since there is only on wireless network around. It worked fine yesterday but the radio turning off could that be because i updated access connections to 4.01 two days before. ?


it should be noted that for this network it seems to only work with windows because the connection is so low. so i don't know if it is directly AC 4.01 since technically i am not using it

this is sort of urgent since it is off an on about every three minutes

I'd try using AC again. See if the problem continues.

I just experienced a problem with AC dropping connections while I was in a hotel (Comfort Suites) for the past week. I finally disabled AC and I never lost the connection the rest of the time that I was there.

Once I got home, I re-enabled AC and have been working fine since.

[quote="wantathinkpad"]my wireless radio keeps turning off on me all of a suddden. I just started letting windows handle my connection since there is only on wireless network around. It worked fine yesterday but the radio turning off could that be because i updated access connections to 4.01 two days before. ? /quote]

We could help more if we had some detail: wireless card or USB adapter, brand and model of wireless adapter, etc. I use wireless PC card adapters and have never experienced any problems on any computer. Just load the driver and go. I use a USB adapter (netgear) and a Card (Sandisk combo Flash - wifi card) using the adapter supplied drivers on my T23 Win 2000 Thinkpad.

I apologize never "closed" the topic. I went back to the colelge a few days later and it hasn't been a problem since. (Note. I never tried again so it could have very well been fixed by a restart) But recently even before I updated wireless connections it seems that my computer cannot connect to networks as well anymore.

Does everyone with connections 4.01 now see a brick wall animation when they are connecting to wireless networks. Since at school I have only been connecting to numberous school WAPS there has been no problem. However I did attempt to connect to my dorm mates wireless open network and it didn't allow me althought he was next door and signal was 80%.
Does the brick wall have any importance?Hidden message.

It indicates if the profile invokes the Windows Firewall.

I believe a padlock indicates WEP or WPA encrypted connections.

I've been experiencing a lot of system problems after upgrading AC from 3.81 to 4.01 and then to version 4.11a ...

Problem symptoms:

- Very slow system startup (up to 1 minute 19sec) (bootvis identifies mrxsmb.sys as the culprit = 34 second load time)

- wireless profile turning on automatically at system startup even though option disabled in the wireless profile.

- Wireless randomly dropping connection.

I've since reverted back to Access Connections version 3.81 and everything is fine once again.

Interesting ... 4.0x's README mentioned performance improvements. I've also noted login slowdowns, but haven't pinned them on AC (and no, I don't use the wireless connect at login option).

Could be that performance improvements mean quicker connection for profile in AC, but at the expense of boot time. If that's the case, I'd rather have it the other way around. A quick boot and shutdown are more important to me than some other tweak to quicken to near instantaneous.

Regardless, I'm back to using AC 3.81 and nothing's complaining, so I'll stick with that as long as I can.

I haven't seen anything that has increased either boot time or connect time; when I timed them, they seemed to stay the same but before and after the install. It seems to take the same amount of time to connect for both 3.81 and 4.11a; although I have noticed that it connects to a few networks that the 3.81 version was wary of connecting to.

Where can I find AC 3.8?
Do I have to rollback wireless drivers from the most recent to work AC 3.8?

Thanks

Ken Cohen

krcmd wrote:Where can I find AC 3.8?

About halfway down the page you will see links for version 3.82 under Previous version downloads.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... IGR-4ZLNJB