activesync 4.1/c600 kills laptop wifi

[Guest rowbot]

anyone hazard a guess at why my xp wireless connection drops after plugging in my c600 to activesync 4.1? on my work pc, it doesn't affect the LAN connection, but on the thinkpad, I plug in the c600, activesync comes up and works ok, but my wireless connection to the router drops out with a "your preferred network could not be connected"... it then retries and retries...

if I do a Repair on the connection, it says something about not being able to renew the ip address..

any ideas would be appreciated...

[Guest rsearley]

anyone hazard a guess at why my xp wireless connection drops after plugging in my c600 to activesync 4.1?  on my work pc, it doesn't affect the LAN connection, but on the thinkpad, I plug in the c600, activesync comes up and works ok, but my wireless connection to the router drops out with a "your preferred network could not be connected"... it then retries and retries...

if I do a Repair on the connection, it says something about not being able to renew the ip address..

any ideas would be appreciated...

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I think its because you can only have 1 data connection at a time,

ie, if you connect wifi gprs drop out, it does the same with activesync, as AS will pass through the PC's connection to the net!

[Guest rsearley]

I think its because you can only have 1 data connection at a time,

ie, if you connect wifi gprs drop out, it does the same with activesync, as AS will pass through the PC's connection to the net!

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oops misread your post.. didnt notice you were talikng about laptop wifi

mine works perfectly well, i have AS 4.1 and use wifi without problem

have you got the latest drivers for your wifi cards, it may also be worth checking the laptop website to see if there are any pcmcia ot motherboard updates

[Guest Griff_FFOC]

Is this of any use?

If you are using 802.11b or 802.11g with WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption on your PC, you may be able to sync your device with your PC however 802.11g connection may be disconnected. Other users have been able to reconnect after rebooting their PC without their device connected. A workaround would be to use WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and MAC address filtering in lieu of WPA. In some cases upgrading the 802.11g card driver resolves the problem. This is known to work with Intel's 2200BG driver and connection manager version 9.x.

It's number 13 at:

http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/faqs/activesync/tshoot-as4x.htm

[Guest mabarumaboy]

anyone hazard a guess at why my xp wireless connection drops after plugging in my c600 to activesync 4.1?  on my work pc, it doesn't affect the LAN connection, but on the thinkpad, I plug in the c600, activesync comes up and works ok, but my wireless connection to the router drops out with a "your preferred network could not be connected"... it then retries and retries...

if I do a Repair on the connection, it says something about not being able to renew the ip address..

any ideas would be appreciated...

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You might want to check this out:

http://nino.net/blogs/nino/archive/2005/12/05/946.aspx

In some cases, AES works and TKIP does not. Go figure ...

[Guest rsearley]

You might want to check this out:

http://nino.net/blogs/nino/archive/2005/12/05/946.aspx

In some cases, AES works and TKIP does not. Go figure ...

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I use WPA-PSK on the laptop, and when i connect the mobile i have no connection issues whatso ever!!