Wireless network problems?

Question

I have a BT Voyager 2110 ADSL Wireless Router, a laptop with integral Wi Fi and a desk top with BT Voyager 1055 wirless adaptor. My problem is, although the laptop starts up and connects to the internet without any problems, the desktop will not, and refuses to connect in any way shape or form. I have had it working, so I know it does work, but when I switched it off and back on the next day, it would not connect again. This has been driving me nuts, has anyone got a solution for this, I have tried setting up with wireless network wizzard, but that asks me to put flash drive into the router, and the 2110 does not have a USB port that I can find, so that does not work, I have treid the normal network wizzard, but that just does not work.

Come on all you network wizzards, what am I diong wrong, I am pretty good with computers normally, so it has to be something really stupid.

Answer 1

Weird. I have almost exactly the same set up at home; I've stuck with the BT Voyager 2110 because it is so easy to use and reliable; I had issues too with the 1055 adapter when I switched from XP to Vista,and even downloading the latest Vista drivers from BT didn't help.

Whether you have XP or Vista, make sure you have the latest drivers

http://www.voyager.bt.com/wireless_devic...

go into device manager and under Universal Serial Bus controllers > usb root hubs, check the power management tab and untick the box for "allow the computer to turn off this device"

Also check under network adapters to see if the wireless adapter has been flagged; even if  it hasn't sometimes simply unplugging it from one usb slot and trying another can fix the problem.

My only other advice is to try (in device manager) the wireless adapter's advanced settings to make sure the right channel has been selected, no power saving modes have been selected; sometimes setting it to an aggressive roaming tendency helps.

You will also have to check if all the network details are exactly the same - making a consistent and overlooked error held me up once; also firewalls can be a problem but I am sure you have ruled out these possibilities. Just make sure one of the BT utilities isn't being blocked.

As you may have guessed, after several weeks of putting up with 1055 woes, I ditched it in favour of the Sweex usb wifi adapter

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweex-LW053-WiFi...

yes - it is that cheap and it works like  a dream under XP and Vista, where Vista installed Ralink drivers for it via an update. Good-bye BT 1055....

Answer 2

Firewall.

What do you have?