I have experienced this a couple times, both in free public wireless areas (such as school). Usually it's fine, but sometimes it doesn't connect no matter what, and says please contact the network administrator. Then some time later (minutes later, or sometimes another day), with everything else the same, it got connected. I didn't ask others in the area whether they could connect, but for all I know, it had nothing to do with my computer settings etc since everything was the same when I did connect and didn't. So I'm curious, what could be the reason for the problem? Could the network just somehow stopped functioning then resumed, without human interactions? (Each time I had the problem it's off hours, so the administrators were not working)
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Weak signal is usually a significant cause of intermittent Network communication problems, but flaky drivers can also be the cause. I cannot tell you how much trouble I had with Vista 64-bit and newer intel 5100 drivers--even though the older drivers worked fine.
Wireless connection sometimes doesn't work?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by vaw, Oct 27, 2009.