if your wifi connection is VERY slow on your x30 here's how to fix it...

[truelove]

if your wifi connection is VERY slow on your x30 here's how to fix it...

if your connection is taking like 15 minutes to load a site, if you're pinging sites in the thousands of milliseconds. maybe some sites won't load at all, some load fairly quickly and some take forever. it may be due to the wifi power management feature on the x30.

if it won't let you disable it in the Dell WLAN utility, here's how to disable it in the system registry. i'm assuming you know how to edit the registry, if you don't: ask around.

anyway, here's the DWORD key to change to enable or disable power management:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Comm/{wifi driver name}/Parms

(the wifi driver for the x30 as of now is WLAGS46b1, at least on mine)

DWORD PMEnabled = 1 (power management enabled)
DWORD PMEnabled = 0 (power management disabled)

Dont have a x30 but shouldnt it work again after you restart your router? MOst of the time the router supports power managemetn.. if it doesnt just restart it and it should work okay again.

What if its something like the tcp/ip settings thing forgot the name of it but its similar to the tweak for windows to increase the mtu or that network packet size thing. I know there was a ppc2002 reg hack for that dont know about 2003

[truelove]

Originally posted by awdark
Dont have a x30 but shouldnt it work again after you restart your router? MOst of the time the router supports power managemetn.. if it doesnt just restart it and it should work okay again.

What if its something like the tcp/ip settings thing forgot the name of it but its similar to the tweak for windows to increase the mtu or that network packet size thing. I know there was a ppc2002 reg hack for that dont know about 2003

believe me, i've tried all that and none of it worked. i've reset the router and hard reset the axim so many times i can't even count. the only thing that worked was disabling the power management throught the registry (because it wouldn't let me do it in the WLAN settings).

Oh interesting.. I was just thinking that if you disable power management then you will say bye bye to battery life.

[truelove]

that may be the case but with power management on, i can't even use wi-fi so i don't have much choice.

[silentknight]

I have the same problem with X3i, have to have power saving disabled for it to work period. Thank goodness for external battery

Do you think its one of those settings?
I know one setting must control the interval of which it sends the im alive messages to the router. Perhaps its the preamble mode dont know what they are for but I know those settings are there.

[Levon]

when i get mine tomorow ill see if its slow, but if i edit the registry, whats the battery life gonna be?

[dngo]

Sorry, I'm a moron. I've tried to install PHM RegEdit, but when it runs all of its text is incredibly small and impossible to read. Despite multiple searches, I could not find a resolution (though I'm sure it's staring me in the face.)

What registry editor did you use?

Thanks,
Dave

[sheepy]

http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities...registry.shtml

take your pick - my personal fave is tascal.

(that's a great website for all sorts of free software, btw ;) )

if your wifi connection is VERY slow on your x30 here's how to fix it...

if your connection is taking like 15 minutes to load a site, if you're pinging sites in the thousands of milliseconds. maybe some sites won't load at all, some load fairly quickly and some take forever. it may be due to the wifi power management feature on the x30.

if it won't let you disable it in the Dell WLAN utility, here's how to disable it in the system registry. i'm assuming you know how to edit the registry, if you don't: ask around.

anyway, here's the DWORD key to change to enable or disable power management:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Comm/{wifi driver name}/Parms

(the wifi driver for the x30 as of now is WLAGS46b1, at least on mine)

DWORD PMEnabled = 1 (power management enabled)
DWORD PMEnabled = 0 (power management disabled)

Major thanks to truelove for this help.

One thing I just noticed (as I was scouring the forums as to why my browsing was so intermittently crappy) was that If I had my axim in the cradle, but the power to cradle unplugged, usb was connected, was that my connection was as crappy as a connection could be. I tried the above fix and this did not seem to do anything. I took the unit out of the cradle and bam! I was surfing faster than before, thanks to the above fix I am sure.

I dont know if any one else can verify this, but I just wanted to throw that out there as something else to try for anyone else having mysterious crap connection issues.
(try taking it out of the cradle)

[mutant]

You know, I was having something like this happening the other day. I tried disabling the power management and that didn't help. But here's what did happen:

My troubles SEEMED to start right when I switched from Verizon DSL to Comcast Cable internet. My e-mail was also very very very slow when checking for new messages (and still is). But the internet thing was all over the place - some pages wouldn't load at all, some would load but took a long time, others loaded right away. And it wasn't what you would expect: there was not a correlation between page size (i.e. graphics vs text only) and slowness.

Also, syncing wirelessly wouldn't work but syncing through the cradle would.

So here's what happened: couple of days ago my daughter was complaining that her game wouldn't load on my PC 'cause there wasn't enough disk space (not sure why she was trying - she has her own computer with her own disk space ). This should mot have happened so I started looking at the disk space and found out it was almost used up on C: (of course, there's 20GB free on E: and F: ) :bang:

So I started looking at what was taking up the space and I found that, when I loaded the Comcast software (which, of course, I didn't need) it stuck a 120MB app on my disk. But worse, my son had loaded Command & Conquer which took up 330MB


So, I deleted all this useless stuff (my son has his own computer with his own disk space) and all of a sudden everything seemed to work much better.



Of course, that makes no sense at all (except maybe for the syncing part) 'cause the internet access goes through the wireless router, VoIP adapter, and cable modem but not my PC.

On the other hand, I guess I did shutdown one of the extra firewalls somewhere in there (1 in wireless router, 1 in telephone adapter, 1 in cable modem; I shut down the one in the wireless router)... :headscrat

[JoMadge]

My troubles SEEMED to start right when I switched from Verizon DSL to Comcast Cable internet. My e-mail was also very very very slow when checking for new messages (and still is).

Just got my Axim X30 high today, and discovered the same problem (I also have Comcast). Found a solution here:

This is a PocketPC 2003 flaw.

There is a problem with sending email from PocketPCs with the PocketPC 2003 operating system. The problem has to do with how ISP is set up. The PPC has a problem with certain mail servers. Some servers are configured in a way that it does not have SSL enabled, but the operating system thinks it does have it enabled. So you need to do a registry tweak that forces the registry to tell the operating system not to use SSL.

Follow these steps using any registry editor software for Pocket PC:

Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Inbox
Create a new DWORD value ForceOffSSL and give it a value of 1,
Base=Decimal (tap Edit, and New DWORD Value).
Soft-reset device.

I downloaded and installed Tascal RegEdit and followed these instructions. Muuuuuuch better! :approve:

~Jo