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zjgolf44 · 03-15-05, 09:54 PM

Not sure if this will help, but I just spent about a week trying to figure when and when doesn't my wifi work. I discovered I could connect fine at one point. After doing so, I decided to turn my firewall on to increase my protection. I tryed the sync again and it worked fine. The next day nothing worked. I would then try multiple things, and I would even turn the firewall off, and it still wouldn't connect. I even did hard resets. Finally after rebooting my PC, it connected. This happened a couple times. I finally figured out that turning my firewall and the reboot of my PC made my x50 happy. The firewall settings seem to take effect immediatly for other PC's on the network (i.e. file sharing from a different PC) but wouldn't take effect for my x50 until my PC was rebooted. Same seemed to prove true when turning the firewall on... didn't seem to have the effect until after rebooting. Not sure why... seems like it has a hard time locating the IP of my PC somepoint through this whole process.

There is one thing you can do to see if your PC is getting checked out by your PDA.
1. Turn your firewall settings on (default is fine). Go to your advanced tab to Security Logging. Turn both check boxes on and note the location of the log file.
2. Reboot your PC. Check what your current IP is.
3. Soft reset you Axim. Note what your current IP is.
4. Get your wifi connected to the network and then try your sync software.
5. It most likely will say 'connecting' for a while and then fail.
6. Go to the security log file your firewall created, to the bottom of it.
7. Look for entries where your axim was trying to connect to your PC. You should see the IP listed of your axim. Mine had the below lines in it. It lists both your pc IP and your axim IP. It is also indicating that it is dropping a request at port TCP 603.

2005-03-14 17:04:04 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 48 SA 1668664152 103659838 65535 - - - SEND
2005-03-14 17:04:07 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 40 A 1668664153 103659838 65535 - - - SEND
2005-03-14 17:04:07 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 48 SA 1668664152 103659838 65535 - - - SEND
2005-03-14 17:04:13 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 40 A 1668664153 103659838 65535 - - - SEND
2005-03-14 17:04:13 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 48 SA 1668664152 103659838 65535 - - - SEND

At this point I could tell it was at least trying to connect. I then tried to leave my firewall on and tried opening my 603 port... but was unsuccessful. I currently have my firewall turned off (and rebooted of course). I'm running XP Pro with all the patches including SP2. I'm running Cadenza mNotes on my PDA to sync (I can specify a specific IP or netbios name in my cadenza software)

Hope this helps. Use or Throw.

03-15-05, 09:54 PM	#26 (permalink)
zjgolf44 Aximsite Prospect Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Look at the Windows Firewall a little closer Not sure if this will help, but I just spent about a week trying to figure when and when doesn't my wifi work. I discovered I could connect fine at one point. After doing so, I decided to turn my firewall on to increase my protection. I tryed the sync again and it worked fine. The next day nothing worked. I would then try multiple things, and I would even turn the firewall off, and it still wouldn't connect. I even did hard resets. Finally after rebooting my PC, it connected. This happened a couple times. I finally figured out that turning my firewall and the reboot of my PC made my x50 happy. The firewall settings seem to take effect immediatly for other PC's on the network (i.e. file sharing from a different PC) but wouldn't take effect for my x50 until my PC was rebooted. Same seemed to prove true when turning the firewall on... didn't seem to have the effect until after rebooting. Not sure why... seems like it has a hard time locating the IP of my PC somepoint through this whole process. There is one thing you can do to see if your PC is getting checked out by your PDA. 1. Turn your firewall settings on (default is fine). Go to your advanced tab to Security Logging. Turn both check boxes on and note the location of the log file. 2. Reboot your PC. Check what your current IP is. 3. Soft reset you Axim. Note what your current IP is. 4. Get your wifi connected to the network and then try your sync software. 5. It most likely will say 'connecting' for a while and then fail. 6. Go to the security log file your firewall created, to the bottom of it. 7. Look for entries where your axim was trying to connect to your PC. You should see the IP listed of your axim. Mine had the below lines in it. It lists both your pc IP and your axim IP. It is also indicating that it is dropping a request at port TCP 603. 2005-03-14 17:04:04 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 48 SA 1668664152 103659838 65535 - - - SEND 2005-03-14 17:04:07 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 40 A 1668664153 103659838 65535 - - - SEND 2005-03-14 17:04:07 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 48 SA 1668664152 103659838 65535 - - - SEND 2005-03-14 17:04:13 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 40 A 1668664153 103659838 65535 - - - SEND 2005-03-14 17:04:13 DROP TCP 10.15.4.44 10.15.4.41 603 1061 48 SA 1668664152 103659838 65535 - - - SEND At this point I could tell it was at least trying to connect. I then tried to leave my firewall on and tried opening my 603 port... but was unsuccessful. I currently have my firewall turned off (and rebooted of course). I'm running XP Pro with all the patches including SP2. I'm running Cadenza mNotes on my PDA to sync (I can specify a specific IP or netbios name in my cadenza software) Hope this helps. Use or Throw. Last edited by zjgolf44; 03-15-05 at 09:59 PM.