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Hi,

I am having problem in my new school lab keeping mapped

drives over a wireless network with the clients running XP

pro. The drives I am mapping to are on a w2k server that

is not wireless. This is a simple network with no domain.

The access point is in the same room and the signal is

strong. Even though I get an error message from the

clients at startup that says the client is unable to

connect to the mapped drive, I have found that this is not

100% true. I am still able to run some programs on the

client that require the use of the mapped drive. However,

one of the programs, that perhaps is requiring more

network usage, often fails. The access point

(Proxim/Orinoco AP600) is connected to the same switch

that the server is connected to, so it isn't a problem

with too many hops. I have upgraded the firmware on the

access point and I have downloaded XP pro updates as well.

If I hardwire a client to the network, the problem is

solved instantly. I am to the point now that I am

considering hardwiring the entire lab, or donwgrading the

clients to Win98, neither of which I am too enthused

about. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Ken Hubel


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What hardware are you using in the laptops? Do you have

any encryption turned on? Are the machines logging into

any kind of domain? Try performing an extended ping test

and see what the results are.



Post the results and we can go from there.



Bruce

Hi Bruce,

The desktops are using Orinoco PCI wireless network

cards. The CPU is a Celeron 2Ghz. There is 256 MB RAM.

The machines are not logging on to a domain. Encryption

is off. Here are the results of the ping test to the

server from a workstation. Packets Sent:105,

Received:105, Lost:0, Min Time:1ms, Max:3ms, Avg:1ms. A

ping test to the access point gave similar results.

Thanks,

Ken