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    3201XCi Wireless intermittent?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by morgois, Oct 16, 2004.

  1. morgois

    morgois Notebook Enthusiast

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    My 3201XCi's wireless goes out for ~1 second every few minutes. It will say wireless network unavailable for a second, then go back on a second later. This happens every few minutes. My desktop is connected to my wireless network at home and it does not do this. Does anyone have this problem and/or know how to fix it?
     
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    If you have Windows XP with Service Pack 2 then you might be experiencing these issues due to a bug, here's an article we posted and in it you'll find a description of the issue and a link to Microsoft to download a patch

    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.aspx?newsID=2015

    if that does not fix it then i have to say that even though your issue is very annoying i'm sure, wireless is the sort of technology where it can be *very* hard to diagnose exactly what's causing issues. could be interference in the area from a microwave, cordless phone, router issues, notebook wireless card issues, operating system issues, ip conflict issues...do you want me to go on, because I can.

    The moral is, sometimes you just have to give up on perfection and accept a "good enough" wireless connection.
     
    Andrew Baxter, Oct 16, 2004
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