Starnge Wi-Fi nuissance

Here is an interesting Vista problem on our Belkin Router:

Medion laptop:

Connects to network, if left ideling for some time will loose internet connectivity and will not reconnect to the internet unless laptop is manually disconnected from Wi-Fi network and then reconnected.

Now my Sony SZ was fine with the network connection all the time until recently when a few times it lost internet connectivity.

Now I'm not sure if our Router is Vista ready, it was bought about 1,5 - 2 years ago.

It has this odd 125MBit/s "ability" (don't know how, with a Belkin Wi-Fi card)

Its not that important - but if anyone knows what it is, I'd appreciate if someone could tell me.

Doesn't occur on a parallel running XP laptop.

PS: If anybody can, would it be possible to have the typo in the "heading" changed? Thanks a lot!

 

routers are vista neutral--they don't care about the operating system

They are not, however, protocol neutral. If your router supports a Belkin-specific/tweaked protocol to support 125mbps, that may be at fault here. You did not say what your laptop wireless cards were spec'd at.

802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n?

I would follow two paths--first check for a firmware update for the router, second, given the time you bought it, see if the router supports a plain old vanilla 802.11g mode, and then also set your wireless cards on your laptop to support plain old wireless g

 

Dollars to donuts, it's the router that's failing. Belkins are not very good to begin with, and after 1.5-2 years, yours has got to be "showing" its age, so to speak.

Also, check the transmission power level on the _Vista system; if it's set to something less than maximum power, that could be a source of the problem.

 

The firmware - I might have had a look before I'm not so sure....if I did find something there must have been something that kept me from it...

The 125 MBit/s mode - its set to allow that & 54MBit/s although as its only b/g our laptops only get 54MBit/s, so I'll switch it off.

Our laptop cards were b/g (a??) for XP and my mothers Medion, my Sz suppports b/g/draft-n (a??) - but the router doesn't use draft n.

The strange thing for me is more that it hasn't happened on my SZ, or maybe only once or twice while it happened a lot of times on my mothers Medion...

Thanks for the input so far.

 

Under the advanced configuration properties for your wireless network adapter, try changing it to just wireless G for each card.

Put me down as not being too fond of Belkin routers as well