Wireless drops when using access point

[jianlian]

Myself and a few friends using IBM ThinkPads are having trouble maintaining a connection to a wireless access point at school. Basically the connection will drop off after about a minute or two. We all have internal wireless cards (part of Centrino), and they have b cards while mine is b/g. Other people are able to connect with their internal cards so i dunno why ours won't. Further, when my friend plugged in a Cisco PC card into his laptop, his connect was fine.

Any ideas how to fix this problem?? (without buying a seperate wireless card!) I've also heard that we can try using Dell drivers, is this true?

[Plinkerton]

I've had some issues with Access connections at my university's network. It wouldn't disconnect, but it would drop down to 1 mbps, and nothing would load. I started using Windows to connect my Wifi, and the problem seemed to have gone away. Give that a shot maybe, and make sure all your drivers are updated.

-Plink-

[rideDPU]

I have found similar problems, but only with one AP in the library. All of the others seem to work fine.

Related: We just got Perfigo Wireless Security dumped on us and that is a whole other set of irritations. Either of you have Perfigo or know a way around it?

Mark

[jianlian]

hmm, i am already using windows to manage my wireless connections