X3i: wifi drop out after 30-45 minutes?

Gigi · 12-06-03, 02:09 PM

Many members have reported either flawless wifi performance or ongoing signal drop-outs that have required rescanning or renewing of IP, turning wifi on/off, and soft and hard resets.

If you have been experiencing connection drop outs after about 30-45 minutes of use, please respond to this poll by indicating which router you currently use. If your router is not listed, please post model number in thread. Please respond ONLY if you are having problems with your X3i. Thanks.

JakeP · 12-06-03, 10:11 PM

My dad has an Ipaq 5550 with Wifi and we have the Linksys router. He gets dropouts after a few minutes of Wifi use too. Im gonna be getting an X3i for Christmas probably and I was wodnering if there are any fixes for this problem.

level · 12-06-03, 10:36 PM

and the funny thing about this problem is that after 2 or 3 hours
the unit will get connected with router again...then 20-30mins, it will lost connection............

JakeP · 12-06-03, 10:46 PM

Yep, sounds about right! :(

12-06-03, 11:29 PM

I have experienced drops using MAC filtering and 128 bit WEP. I changed to 64 bit WEP (with MAC filtering) and my connection has yet to drop. My router is the Linksys BEFW11SR4v1.

joelw135 · 12-06-03, 11:44 PM

Have you tried 128 bit WEP, but turn off your powersave mode on the Axim Wi-Fi card?

level · 12-07-03, 12:30 AM

yep.
I tried 128 wep without powersave, 64 wep without powersave

no luck :P

WAD · 12-07-03, 01:25 AM

I'm getting a G wireless router for christmas... anyone recommend a specific brand?

jmattick · 12-07-03, 01:46 AM

I am guessing that most of you having this problem are running Windows XP...

I read somewhere that this exact same problem was happening with all kinds of different routers and computer, but found out, in the end, it was a service running in Windows XP...

Do this...

Press Start, then go to run, and in the dialog box, type "services.msc" (without the quotes) scroll down near the bottom till you see "Wireless Zero Config"... Right click on it, and go to properties. A new window should pop up. In the middle of the window, you should see "Startup Type: " with a drag-down menu that is on "Automatic". Click it, and change it to "Disabled"

Press Apply, then Ok, then exit out of the Services Window... Do a restart and you should be fine...
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Let me explain what "Wireless Zero Config" does... "Wireless Zero Config" came preinstalled with Windows XP as an always running service. It was made so the moment there is a new wireless device attached to the computer, it would pick up on the available signals in the area. But it also causes a problem. For some reason, when it is always detecting, it scans for new Wireless LAN's every couple of minutes, thus, causing the connection drop out that a lot of people are seeing on windows xp...

Hope I was some help!

Gigi · 12-07-03, 09:16 AM

jmattick, what you said makes a lot of sense. However, I also have the X5 and have never had any connection dropout problems with the same router and my Linksys CF card.

G35Guy · 12-07-03, 09:25 AM

jmattick, that's great if it were WinXP, but as u know, our handhelds run Win Mobile 2003. The x3i communicates directly with the wireless router, it has nothing to do with what other computers are on the network. The problem should still happen even if you have only a wireless router and the x3i and no other computers. Thanks for the idea, but I think the problem is the firmware on the x3i's built-in wireless card. It's probably fixable by something as simple as adjusting the beacon rate on the router to compensate for the wireless card on the x3i.

I have the linksys router (BEFW11SR4 v3 - firmware 1.45) and I've had this happen on my x3i, which I've only had for about 3 days now. My connection sometimes stays solid for hours...and other times, it drops every 4-7 minutes, sometimes it even drops right in the middle of a transfer, when the connection isn't even idle. I have solved my problem by changing the Beacon Interval on the router from 100 to 10, the default is 100. I changed it last nite and have not had a drop-out since...I'll post again if I have anymore drop-outs. On the linksys, this setting is under "Advanced" > "Wireless". If 10 doesn't work for you, try 30 or 50 or 70. It may take a bit of fiddling to find what works best for you. Also, I am using 128 WEP.

If anyone else tries this small change, let us know how it goes.

joelw135 · 12-07-03, 10:52 AM

G35Guy do you have the power save for the Wi-Fi card on? I have the same setup as you except I have ver4 of the router. Then only way I found to keep connection was turn off the powersave mode.

P.S. mine is set at 100 and everything else is default. And I have no connection problems.

aviationwiz · 12-07-03, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by WAD
I'm getting a G wireless router for christmas... anyone recommend a specific brand?

I love my Linksys WRT54G. Linksys overall makes the best networking products around. Thier parent company is Cisco.

G35Guy · 12-07-03, 11:02 AM

Joel, I was getting the dropout both with powersave on and off.

WAD · 12-07-03, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by aviationwiz
I love my Linksys WRT54G. Linksys overall makes the best networking products around. Thier parent company is Cisco.

thanks aviationwiz :D