If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes Monday, October 18, 2004 at 10:13 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Lam Jam (1 messages posted) I have found a very simple fix for this problem. My computer is running XP Home, connecting to the internet using a Linksys USB wireless adapter. Every few minutes, my internet connection drops, and I have to "choose" another wireless network and connect to it. Well after pulling my hair out for a week, and scouring the internet blogs and communities, I found an article that says, if you recently installed XP service pack one, then you must disable the 802.1x authentication in the properties of the wireless connection. I tried it, and have been on the internet now with no drops at all. That's it. My wireless network is WEP secured, so I did not sacrifice the security for this fix to work. It is a conflict between how windows handles the wireless connection under Service Pack 1. It is a very simple fix. No need to edit registers, disable networks, re-boot machines, no calling ISP's, no tampering with cable filters etc... Hope this helps. Lam Jam lamjam@almworldwide.com Written in response to: re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (dnudelman: Friday, May 7, 2004 at 10:08 am) Responses to this message: re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Tom Borden: Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 12:40 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jesse: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 11:35 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Sreev: Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 9:55 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Trevor: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:48 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (B.C.: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 4:13 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (GM: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 4:34 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (B.C.: Wed, Jan 1, 2003, 5:46 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Tom Swanson: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 7:47 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (dnudelman: Fri, May 7, 2004, 10:08 am) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Tom Swanson: Fri, May 7, 2004, 1:38 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Bob Forsyth: Fri, Jul 23, 2004, 8:57 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (James Carter: Tue, Jul 27, 2004, 5:48 am) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (nelson: Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 8:13 am) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Brett Pierce: Thu, Sep 2, 2004, 10:33 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Fred Malott: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 4:07 pm) If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Lam Jam: Mon, Oct 18, 2004, 10:13 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Tom Borden: Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 12:40 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (vida: Wed, Feb 2, 2005, 6:28 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Barry Howarth: Sat, Mar 26, 2005, 7:26 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (David: Tue, May 24, 2005, 2:24 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Anthony: Wed, May 25, 2005, 6:13 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (David: Wed, May 25, 2005, 7:14 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (HJam72: Tue, Jun 7, 2005, 11:05 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Billbo: Sat, Sep 17, 2005, 10:23 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Xavier Castillo: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 9:04 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (john: Mon, Jun 20, 2005, 3:59 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (adam: Sun, Sep 11, 2005, 5:07 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Karn: Tue, Oct 25, 2005, 8:15 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jason: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 3:03 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Karn: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 2:31 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jason: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 8:35 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Mark: Wed, Nov 2, 2005, 3:29 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Steve: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 1:50 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Rajesh Sharma: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 8:15 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Kelvin: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 11:50 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jesse: Wed, Nov 30, 2005, 11:35 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Ed: Tue, Dec 20, 2005, 6:54 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Sreev: Tue, Feb 7, 2006, 9:55 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (david: Thu, Jun 22, 2006, 12:35 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (JTor: Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 9:31 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (carol: Mon, May 14, 2007, 2:05 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Bob N: Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 11:26 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (notspace: Sun, Jun 10, 2007, 2:46 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Glen Taylor: Sun, Jul 8, 2007, 9:58 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (notspace: Wed, Jul 9, 2008, 9:57 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Trevor: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:48 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Chirag Desai: Tue, Jul 17, 2007, 5:38 am) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (BobK: Mon, Jul 30, 2007, 5:20 am) re: DISCONNECTION at random (IRRITATION: Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 4:08 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum