Guest chonkey Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Hi.. I have a weird issue with my new m600 - when I connect it to either my laptop or my wifes, it disconnects the laptop from the wireless network while it configures the connection between the pda and laptop (as a new lan connection) My xda IIs doesnt do this, does anyone elses' m600 create a new network connection? Is there something I can turn off in the M600 to stop this happening? Its very irritating. Both laptops are using intel wireless nics and the router is a linksys wrt45g cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nevawlkalone Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Hi.. I have a weird issue with my new m600 - when I connect it to either my laptop or my wifes, it disconnects the laptop from the wireless network while it configures the connection between the pda and laptop (as a new lan connection) My xda IIs doesnt do this, does anyone elses' m600 create a new network connection? Is there something I can turn off in the M600 to stop this happening? Its very irritating. Both laptops are using intel wireless nics and the router is a linksys wrt45g cheers Is it the way the network is on eeither the PDA or the laptop? I.E adhoc or peer to peer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jagsheer Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Hi.. I have a weird issue with my new m600 - when I connect it to either my laptop or my wifes, it disconnects the laptop from the wireless network while it configures the connection between the pda and laptop (as a new lan connection) My xda IIs doesnt do this, does anyone elses' m600 create a new network connection? Is there something I can turn off in the M600 to stop this happening? Its very irritating. Both laptops are using intel wireless nics and the router is a linksys wrt45g cheers I had a similar problem and searching around the internet it seems to be a common problem. The suggestions were to use WEP, however I have always used MAC filtering. I switched my wireless connections to WEP, then connected my laptop directly into the router (with network cable) and added the SPV M600's mac address to the MAC filtering allowed list and then switched back to MAC filtering and it seemed to work. Give it a try with just WEP also if your comfortable with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chonkey Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 I had a similar problem and searching around the internet it seems to be a common problem. The suggestions were to use WEP, however I have always used MAC filtering. I switched my wireless connections to WEP, then connected my laptop directly into the router (with network cable) and added the SPV M600's mac address to the MAC filtering allowed list and then switched back to MAC filtering and it seemed to work. Give it a try with just WEP also if your comfortable with that. Good work fella! That seems to have fixed it.. odd. With the router set to WEP, everything connects happily but with mac filter applied the m600 cannot connect.. nevermind, at least the laptop stays connected. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PaulF Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 Currently my PC is connected to my router via LAN and WLAN When I plug in the M600 for an Active Sync, both LAN and WLAN connections reset - they reconnect within a second or two, but it seems that either the connection of the M600, or the activation of the Active Sync application causes both LAN and WLAN connections to renew their DHCP licences. No idea why, and it doesn't give me any particular problems, just something I've noticed. I'm using WEP, but no MAC filtering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chonkey Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 Have you tried changing the WEP key? I'd like to move to something more secure but to be honest I havent bothered fiddling with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jimbouk Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 Remember that your m600 has different mac addresses for the net interface it presents to the laptop and for the onboard wifi as they are actually different n.i.c's Connecting your device via activesync shouldn't interupt your other network connections but as it is an IP connction it may be your laptop's network settings that are causing the hiccup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest slimgym Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 I had this at work with a brand new SP5m where the wireless kept dropping out and I'd have to reboot the phone. The SSID would drop from the home screen, "find networks" page vanished and going into the wireless setup brought up a message "please insert wireless module"! As the phone was new I had the sync cable connected to charge and the laptop connected was also connected via wireless to the same AP as the phone was connecting to. When I did get it going the router then stopped its DHCP service so that needed a reboot! It then occured to me that the activesync provides IP pass through to the same network so it'd created a loop. Hence lots of traffic and the wireless card on the phone shutting down, then the router DHCP server seeing someone else dishing out IP addresses and stopping itself etc. Worked fine with any of these links broken, i.e. laptop wireless disconnected or activesync cable unplugged. For reference the WLAN was WEP'd. I thought the phone was faulty at first but it's been solid as a rock since so it must have been that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thud Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 I cant believe this, I have this problem too. A brand new M600. You connect it to your laptop and bang you Wireless network is taken out. This is plain ridiculous, what the hell are orange playing at. I use WPA and wouldnt like to downgrade to WEP, has anyone found a solution to this bollox up!? thanks in advance, Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jimbouk Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 (edited) Check your network bridge. If the laptops networks are set to bridge this may affect all connections when a new one connects. I never had this problem with my Imate JAMin. Edited September 4, 2006 by jimbouk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thud Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 Check your network bridge. If the laptops networks are set to bridge this may affect all connections when a new one connects. I never had this problem with my Imate JAMin. No bridge connections in place as far as I can determine. This is progress huh, cant even sync the thing, still cant get my network back up, despite netgear reboot etc. M500 didnt feck up the network like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jimbouk Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 OK. Disconnect your device. Restart your laptop and at the same time, restart your router (pull the power out for 10 secs). Once router has restarted, your laptop "should" reconnect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thud Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 (edited) OK. Disconnect your device. Restart your laptop and at the same time, restart your router (pull the power out for 10 secs). Once router has restarted, your laptop "should" reconnect. Thanks, its ok I have restored my network. However, I can't sync this supposedly brilliant phone without trashing my network each time. Crazy. Edited September 4, 2006 by thud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest slimgym Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 Thanks, its ok I have restored my network. However, I can't sync this supposedly brilliant phone without trashing my network each time. Crazy. Is it ok with wireless off? I thought when I had this issue it was a network loop around the laptop wifi, router, phone wifi and sync cable (pass-thru). Without a protocol to block looped traffic any packets are repeated until the traffic gets to a level that the network cards and kit shuts down as it can no longer cope. I only now connect the sync cable with wireless off and it's been fine since. It might be something else but this is the way I saw it and the cure was to remove the loop. So wi-fi but no sync cable, or sync cable and no wi-fi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thud Posted September 5, 2006 Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 Is it ok with wireless off? I thought when I had this issue it was a network loop around the laptop wifi, router, phone wifi and sync cable (pass-thru). Without a protocol to block looped traffic any packets are repeated until the traffic gets to a level that the network cards and kit shuts down as it can no longer cope. I only now connect the sync cable with wireless off and it's been fine since. It might be something else but this is the way I saw it and the cure was to remove the loop. So wi-fi but no sync cable, or sync cable and no wi-fi. Hi, No even with WIFI switched off on the M600 as soon as you connect it to the laptop it takes out the wireless network for everyone on it. What a bag of xxxx. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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