sarahlouise

Thanks for replying. Since posting this I can now connect....one time out of around 150 tries....no joke.. if i sit and press repair for around 1hr+ i can connect..sometimes the connection will stay for 2 hrs, sometimes for 10minutes and the cycle starts again.

Im located in the UK
the network adapter i am using is Netgear WG311v2 802.11g Wireless PCI adapter and the latest driver they have for it is installed and their website says it IS vista compatible and it has worked before at my previous address with this driver, with less problems but stil had the net dropping out at random times.

the router is netgear DG834G v3

the ISP is BT

my computer make and model is actually unknown to me as it was built for me by someone else, all I know is that processor is AMD and it has 80g hardrive, 1gig RAM, OS is Vista business

connection type wireless with WEP
Browser used is internet explorer and firefox

the 3 errors i get are as follows and its totally random which one appears;

'The wireless connection assosiation failed due to an unknown reason.'
'The connection has timed out due to ..something or user action' sorry i haven't seen this one for a while and can't remember exactly what it said.
and recently this new one has started appearing, even though to my knowledge the network settings on my PC are fine, seeing as I CAN connect sometimes..
'This network is marked as a 'hidden' network and is either not in range of the computer (its less than 4 feet away) or the wireless settings saved on this PC do not match the settings of the network'


This is the info I got from the cmd

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Sarah>ping 216.109.112.135

Pinging 216.109.112.135 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.64: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.0.64: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.0.64: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.0.64: Destination host unreachable.

Ping statistics for 216.109.112.135:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

C:\Users\Sarah>ping yahoo.com
Ping request could not find host yahoo.com. Please check the name and try again.


C:\Users\Sarah>NBTSTAT -n

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [0.0.0.0] Scope Id: []

No names in cache

Wireless Network Connection:
Node IpAddress: [0.0.0.0] Scope Id: []

No names in cache

C:\Users\Sarah>IPCONFIG /ALL

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Sarah-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NETGEAR WG311v2 802.11g Wireless PCI Adap
ter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-B5-41-E5-DA
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : ULi M526X Ethernet Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-8F-51-5C-45
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{FB2A8BB5-6D8D-48CF-BA2A-A11C585C8
7F5}
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 10:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{8B019888-27F4-4DCE-ADAF-51099D927
3F3}
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

C:\Users\Sarah>

there are 5 computers in this house 3(using XP) that connect without any problems whatsoever to this network. the other two, are vista and we are both having the exact same issue.

thank you for reading