Brien Posey's Windows Blog » Wireless Networking http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:09:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Windows 7 Wireless Networking http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/windows-7-wireless-networking-2/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/windows-7-wireless-networking-2/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 03:45:38 +0000 Brien Posey http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/windows-7-wireless-networking-2/ Lately I have been doing a lot of work with the Windows 7 Release Candidate. One strange issue that I keep running into is that I keep losing my wireless networking connection.

I have been using an HP laptop with 4 GB of RAM to evaluate Windows 7. For some reason, my wireless network connection will drop for no apparent reason. If I wait for half an hour or so, the connection will come back, but in fifteen minutes or so it will drop again. during periods of inavailability, the machine seems to be able to see my access point, but it cannot communicate with it no matter what I have tried.

I suspected that a hardware failure might be to blame, so I blew out Windows 7 and installed Vista on the machine, but the problem went away when I did. I put Windows 7 back, and my connectivity issues returned with it.

The problem does not seem to affect wired network connections as far as I can tell. I was just curious as to whether or not anyone else has run into this issue.

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/windows-7-wireless-networking-2/feed/ 2 Windows 7 Wireless Networking http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/windows-7-wireless-networking/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/windows-7-wireless-networking/#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 16:19:00 +0000 Brien Posey http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/windows-7-wireless-networking/ I just installed the Windows 7 release candidate for the third time. For some reason this hadn’t registered with me until now, but the installer is actually designed to detect any wireless networks that happen to be in range. You can set up wireless networking as a part of the initial installation process. I absolutely love this feature, because it means that when Setup is complete, you are already connected to the network and are ready to go.

I haven’t seen tha automated installation kit for Windows 7 yet (if there is one), but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if you could specify a wireless network and an encryption key within the installation parameters.

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