Intermittent wireless on T60

[kblackav8or]

Mine has the factory Atheros AGN card. I have only had this about 10 days and it was a leftover NIB unit. Most of the drivers and software were out of date. I ran the updates a couple times and now I seem to be getting intermittent wireless connections. It turns on and off. I am not sure whether windows is managing my connection or the thinkvantage stuff is managing it. I have checked my network and it seems fine, other computers seem to be on there without a problem. What do I do to streamline this setup and make sure it is right. Running Vista home Premium.

[Harryc]

In device manager go into the properties for the WiFi card, click on the advanced tab and make sure Power Save mode is set to disabled.

[kblackav8or]

Disabled the power save. It still keeps dropping connection to the internet. The wireless light seems to blink nearly all the time rather then be steady. I have a belkin N router and WPA encryption set. It seems to have started since I ran some of the windows updates. Any other settings i can try?

[old sparky]

Harryc,
Thanx....I "read your mail"....I just unchecked the power save on mine, too. I have had intermittant drops of internet on my 2007-GEU T60. However, when I lose internet, the wireless connection managers still show it is connected to the network. Then, if I open AC, click "disconnect" and then "connect", I can again access the internet. I have the current driver updates for the 3945ABG installed. I have also selectively applied any other updates that may pertain. Any thoughts on why AC and Windows WNCS will show a solid connection to the network, but the internet connection is lost?

BTW: I do not have this problem with my other T60 W/S with Atheros ABGN, or my workstation with wifi card operating on my home wireless network.

I have seen other posts about shortcomings of the Intel WIFI cards.....I do know that the Atheros in my other T60 has "better ears"....

Thanks,
old sparky