I bought a Dell Axim x51, the mid model with wifi, on the 29th of August. It got here yesterday, September 1st.
The wifi is acting up. The wifi is on, it is connected to my network with a strong signal (I'm not even 6 foot away from the router) and I have all full green bars.
It seems like it would work pereect, but it's not. I'm good with computers and I know what I'md oing, but this just doesn't work.
Nothing actually works. Internet explorer.. I can't go to any web pages. Pocket MSN, I can't sign on. WMP.. no internet connectivity.
I've taken off network security, changed channels, changed SSID's, everything. IT will not work. IT does work when its in the cradle but that TOTALLY defeats the purpose. It has worked once or twice today but onyl for a min or two. Like I said, im not far from the router. This is really angering me as I got this mainly for the wifi.
Any suggestions? Also, It is stock, I haven't upgraded anything or anything. How can I upgrade it to the latest version? do I need to? i'm trying to find these answers but its confusing
I bought a Dell Axim x51, the mid model with wifi, on the 29th of August. It got here yesterday, September 1st.
The wifi is acting up. The wifi is on, it is connected to my network with a strong signal (I'm not even 6 foot away from the router) and I have all full green bars.
It seems like it would work pereect, but it's not. I'm good with computers and I know what I'md oing, but this just doesn't work.
Nothing actually works. Internet explorer.. I can't go to any web pages. Pocket MSN, I can't sign on. WMP.. no internet connectivity.
I've taken off network security, changed channels, changed SSID's, everything. IT will not work. IT does work when its in the cradle but that TOTALLY defeats the purpose. It has worked once or twice today but onyl for a min or two. Like I said, im not far from the router. This is really angering me as I got this mainly for the wifi.
Any suggestions? Also, It is stock, I haven't upgraded anything or anything. How can I upgrade it to the latest version? do I need to? i'm trying to find these answers but its confusing
Not sure if the settings on the X51 are the same as the X50, but try this:
Start|Settings|Connections|Connections
Click on Advanced, then Select Networks
Both boxes should be set to My Work Network
Click on Edit, then Proxy Settings.
Make sure there's a check mark in the box for This network connects to the internet.
I bought a Dell Axim x51, the mid model with wifi, on the 29th of August. It got here yesterday, September 1st.
The wifi is acting up. The wifi is on, it is connected to my network with a strong signal (I'm not even 6 foot away from the router) and I have all full green bars.
It seems like it would work pereect, but it's not. I'm good with computers and I know what I'md oing, but this just doesn't work.
Nothing actually works. Internet explorer.. I can't go to any web pages. Pocket MSN, I can't sign on. WMP.. no internet connectivity.
I've taken off network security, changed channels, changed SSID's, everything. IT will not work. IT does work when its in the cradle but that TOTALLY defeats the purpose. It has worked once or twice today but onyl for a min or two. Like I said, im not far from the router. This is really angering me as I got this mainly for the wifi.
Any suggestions? Also, It is stock, I haven't upgraded anything or anything. How can I upgrade it to the latest version? do I need to? i'm trying to find these answers but its confusing
thanks in advance :)
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I have similar problems trying to connect thru Linksys WRT54G ver 6.0. Funny thing is I have no problems using Linksys WRT54GS ver. 2.0. Point is that on the second one my axim is the only one device going thru Wi-Fi. Using the first one (ver. 6.0) there is another device connecting and it seems causing lts of problems with IP assigment on rourter..... so it looks connected bt its not. Must be some glitch....
Perhaps your Wireless router setting (ie. G istead of A/B) could be the problem. The axim mid-level, which I have, works only for the wireless B setting. I tried with wireless G once and has similar problems to what you described until I turned it back.
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It may be a channel issue with the router: try changing the channel on your router's control panel until you can find one that works. Depending on your router, it should be somewhere under Wireless Settings.
One other thing to check: if you are using Norton, make sure that the firewall is set to allow the Axim access to the router via the wireless network.
I had the same problem til I found a post here that said to disable the "power save" feature in the Dell WLAN utility. Did that and works like a charm, give it a try.
Hi everybody!
I have been dealing with this WiFi issue and my X51v since I bought it in May this year.
Maybe this can help those people that are trying to establish a peer-to-peer connection as I did.
ATTENTION: take into consideration that the suggested changes bellow are done directly to the registries. Only do that if you are used to and experienced making changes directly on Windows Registry. Improper changes can corrupt your system leading to a hard reset. Make a registry backup and do the modifications at your own risk.
Everything used to work fine when I connected to a regular access point at airports, hotels, etc. The problem started when I went to connect at home.
I have a WiFi card at my desktop PC that is connected to the ADSL router, so it is a peer-to-peer connection also known as ad-hoc. I could connect the X51v to the PC but couldn't get a valid IP. All the time it ended up with the Axim's internal default 169.254.14.### IP and my computer trying to assign 192.168.0.### because when you share your Internet connection on PC, Windows XP automatically attributes192.168.0.1 to its Ethernet card.
Grabbing into the WM5 registry I found some keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ODIM\TIACXWLN1\Parms\TCPIP
I changed the following keys:
AutoIP from 169.254.14.50 to 192.168.120.2 AutoMask from 255.255.0.0 to 255.255.255.0 DhcpIPAddress from 169.254.14.50 to 192.168.120.2 DhcpServer from 192.168.120.1 to 192.168.0.1 DhcpSubnetMask from 255.255.0.0 to 255.255.255.0
After these changes, everything started to work fine with my PC and its WiFi card. I made tests connecting to regular access points (I was concerned that it could not work after modifications) and the connections were perfect.
I hope such information can be helpfull to people having problem with their ad-hoc connections.
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