T61 flaky wireless lately, takes forever to wake up

[Popliteus]

A couple of things... (first off, I am not running any of lenovo's bloatware, just running vista hp)

1) lately the T61 keeps taking forever to fall asleep or wake up (probably 20-30 seconds each). It did not start doing it until the past month or two.

2) Also, I have noticed sometimes the wifi drops out on a rare occasion but more frequently it has trouble actually getting to the internet RIGHT AFTER it wakes up from sleep.

Here is the detailed description: I don't have the taskbar icon with the screens and the red X, instead I have the two screens (without the globe). It will say "connecting to unidentified", or "connecting to (my wifi network)", or "connected to (my network) with limited access" etc... and there will be no globe next to the taskbar icon of the two screens. Even though it's identifying, it never actually, uh, identifies, and I have to manually disconnect from that wifi network and reconnect, and eventually it works. This is total BS.

Is anyone else having these issues?

I know it's the T61 because i have an ipod touch with wifi, and a mac mini with wifi, and they have never done this - not even once.

[Mr-Pacman]

I've been having the same problem with my T61 running windows XP.

Started happening a month ago. The WiFi seems to be dropping out quite a bit lately and having trouble getting re-connected. The signal strength is excellent but there is a "limited or no connectivity" message.

The odd thing is, my work X60 is sitting right beside my T61 and can stay connected to the same wireless router for weeks at a time without dropping out (I know it never drops out, because it's connected to my work VPN network and it would disconnect the VPN if ever lost the WiFi signal for a few seconds.)

[basketb]

I'd install Access Connections and see whether it makes thinks more stable on the wifi front.
Using XP, I deinstalled Access Connections on my T61p, thinking I don't need it as I use it only at home on one network. However, wifi access would become very flaky and even impossible after coming out of sleep (with 100% signal strength). After reinstalling Access Connections, no problems whatsoever.

[Mr-Pacman]

I'd install Access Connections and see whether it makes thinks more stable on the wifi front.
Using XP, I deinstalled Access Connections on my T61p, thinking I don't need it as I use it only at home on one network. However, wifi access would become very flaky and even impossible after coming out of sleep (with 100% signal strength). After reinstalling Access Connections, no problems whatsoever.

I'll give it a shot. I tried playing around with access connections but it seemed a bit complicated to set up (I'm not too bright when it comes to networking). I'll give it another try tonight.

Did you have to remove the Windows connection software, or make the Access Connections software the default one to use?

THanks
James

[josh999]

Just make it the default. No removal necessary!

[basketb]

After I had installed and configured Access Connections, it took over the wireless connection by itself. No need to make it the the default explicitly or to remove the windows built-in software.

[pae77]

I've been having the same issues described by the original poster. I had to uninstall access connections to get anything working at all. Now vista is controlling the connection and I'm still getting drop outs and sometimes I have to reboot to get establish a wireless connection. When things go bad, vista reports windows cannot find any wireless networks even though other computers right next to mine are picking up an excellent signal. A reboot usually results in a good connection until I put the computer to sleep and then it's about 70/30 whether I'll be able to connect without rebooting when I resume from sleep.

I've tried to install Access Connections again, but it doesn't seem to work at all. I can't get it to take over managing the connection from windows.

I'm stumped.

All these problems started about a month ago. Before that, I was using Access Connections with no problems.

[spwhiting@]

Try Access Connections 4.52 from Lenovo's Access connection website.