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Sony VAIO & Vista wireless connection problems
Hi there,
I use a 3Com 3CWRDR100A-72 router that has worked faultlessly with many devices in my house; W2K laptop XP Tablet PC x 2 iPAQ 2210 & Socket CF Wi-Fi card iPAQ 4700 XBOX 360 PS3 Nevo SL Momento Digital picture frame x 2 20+ visiting laptops etc. etc. You get the idea ;^) I use MAC Address filtering for security. However I have a brand new Sony VGN-FZ21Z that will not connect wirelessly to it...well sometimes it has but most of the time it doesn't, I have the router set to broadcast SSID and the FZ21Z sees it OK. With no encryption the FZ21Z will not automatically connect after coming out of standby or being shut down. Using WPA it has managed to connect probably 2 times out of 20 but mostly it fails - the log reporting a timeout error. I have a Sony VAIO VGN-N38Z sat next to it that is fine even when the SSID is not broadcasting. This is driving me crazy...to help my sanity and my hair can some kind soul offer some help/advice/tips please? -- Thanks & regards, -pp- |
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Sony VAIO & Vista wireless connection problems
Try to disable the IPV6 first.
Vista IPCONFIG and Network SettingsHow to disable Auto-tuning on Windows Vista · How to disable TCP/IPv6 · How to remove IPv6 and Tunnel completely on Vista ... www.howtonetworking.com/vista/vistaipconfig.htm -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Pheasant Plucker®" wrote in message ... Hi there, I use a 3Com 3CWRDR100A-72 router that has worked faultlessly with many devices in my house; W2K laptop XP Tablet PC x 2 iPAQ 2210 & Socket CF Wi-Fi card iPAQ 4700 XBOX 360 PS3 Nevo SL Momento Digital picture frame x 2 20+ visiting laptops etc. etc. You get the idea ;^) I use MAC Address filtering for security. However I have a brand new Sony VGN-FZ21Z that will not connect wirelessly to it...well sometimes it has but most of the time it doesn't, I have the router set to broadcast SSID and the FZ21Z sees it OK. With no encryption the FZ21Z will not automatically connect after coming out of standby or being shut down. Using WPA it has managed to connect probably 2 times out of 20 but mostly it fails - the log reporting a timeout error. I have a Sony VAIO VGN-N38Z sat next to it that is fine even when the SSID is not broadcasting. This is driving me crazy...to help my sanity and my hair can some kind soul offer some help/advice/tips please? -- Thanks & regards, -pp- |
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Sony VAIO & Vista wireless connection problems
Thanks for the reply Robert,
When I removed WPA the Vista laptop started to behave itself and has been connected ever since...it never done this first time round... As soon as I turn WPA on I get the issues. Will unbinding IPV6 have any bearing on this do you think? I will give it a go when I get some spare time and report back. -- Thanks & regards, -pp- "Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote in message ... Try to disable the IPV6 first. Vista IPCONFIG and Network SettingsHow to disable Auto-tuning on Windows Vista · How to disable TCP/IPv6 · How to remove IPv6 and Tunnel completely on Vista ... www.howtonetworking.com/vista/vistaipconfig.htm -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Pheasant Plucker®" wrote in message ... Hi there, I use a 3Com 3CWRDR100A-72 router that has worked faultlessly with many devices in my house; W2K laptop XP Tablet PC x 2 iPAQ 2210 & Socket CF Wi-Fi card iPAQ 4700 XBOX 360 PS3 Nevo SL Momento Digital picture frame x 2 20+ visiting laptops etc. etc. You get the idea ;^) I use MAC Address filtering for security. However I have a brand new Sony VGN-FZ21Z that will not connect wirelessly to it...well sometimes it has but most of the time it doesn't, I have the router set to broadcast SSID and the FZ21Z sees it OK. With no encryption the FZ21Z will not automatically connect after coming out of standby or being shut down. Using WPA it has managed to connect probably 2 times out of 20 but mostly it fails - the log reporting a timeout error. I have a Sony VAIO VGN-N38Z sat next to it that is fine even when the SSID is not broadcasting. This is driving me crazy...to help my sanity and my hair can some kind soul offer some help/advice/tips please? -- Thanks & regards, -pp- |
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Sony VAIO & Vista wireless connection problems
"Pheasant Plucker®" wrote in message
... Hi there, I use a3Com3CWRDR100A-72 router that has worked faultlessly with many devices in my house; W2K laptop XP Tablet PC x 2 iPAQ 2210 & Socket CF Wi-Fi card iPAQ 4700 XBOX 360 PS3 Nevo SL Momento Digital picture frame x 2 20+ visiting laptops etc. etc. You get the idea ;^) I use MAC Address filtering for security. However I have a brand new Sony VGN-FZ21Z that will not connect wirelessly to it...well sometimes it has but most of the time it doesn't, Timeout exchanging secondary keys by any chance? My new Toshiba has a very similar problem when running Vista with WPA-PSK at home. About 1% of the time it connects the rest it sees perfect signal does the initial key exchange and then bombs out with a timeout waiting for server (exactly the same model as yours). The portable has Intel 3945ABG WiFi chipset with 11.5.0.32 driver at present (others have tried different drivers to no avail). It seems to be much worse if it has suspended due to inactivity since power up. I have tried disabling the power down WiFi to save power option but that didn't seem to make any difference. I have the router set to broadcast SSID and the FZ21Z sees it OK. With no encryption the FZ21Z will not automatically connect after coming out of standby or being shut down. UsingWPAit has managed to connect probably 2 times out of 20 but mostly it fails - the log reporting a timeout error. I have a Sony VAIO VGN-N38Z sat next to it that is fine even when the SSID is not broadcasting. This is driving me crazy...to help my sanity and my hair can some kind soul offer some help/advice/tips please? I am inclined to blame MS Vista and 3Com about equally for this one since at present I cannot find anything obviously useful on either of their respective knowledgebase sites. Although I intend to try out one WPA related hotfix (see below). And I can find lots of people complaining of this or very similar timeout problems when using WPA with Vista on various platforms and in combination with various routers. It seems crazy to have to deliberately downgrade security to WEP just so that new hardware using Vista can connect to an existing WPA network. I think the problem I have may be described obliquely in the following MSKB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935222/en-us I have yet to obtain this hotfix and apply it. The other one that seems to cause trouble a bit later on after you get the encryption sorted out is a DHCP in Vista SNAFU. Details on that one at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us I expect that there are some others cunningly hidden on the MSKB site in such a way that using the obvious keywords for the problem will not find the right solution Regards, Martin Brown |
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Sony VAIO & Vista wireless connection problems
Please help me. I have a sony VGN-FW56E that i have connected to a wireless network. It says it is connected but has no internet access. Any ideas -- Skylark1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skylark1's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/225262.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...ork/914561.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Sony VAIO & Vista wireless connection problems
Hi The statement connected means that the Wireless card sees the source signal. If it does not work, in most cases it a result of Not obtaining a valid IP from the Wireless source (an IP of 169.xxx.xxx.xxx is not a valid working IP). Make sure that all the Wireless card parameters match the Wireless source. My Wireless does not work - http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html Wireless Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).. "Skylark1" wrote in message ... Please help me. I have a sony VGN-FW56E that i have connected to a wireless network. It says it is connected but has no internet access. Any ideas -- Skylark1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skylark1's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/225262.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...ork/914561.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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