[MLB-WIRELESS] strange wireless problem with XP Pro

[Andrew Wagstaff]

It might have something to do with XP's SP2 built in firewall. Have you
tried turning it off ? It is usally turned on by default.

regards

Andrew Wagstaff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rowan Crowe" <rowan at sensation.net.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:58 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] strange wireless problem with XP Pro


> I'm trying to get wireless working on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with XP
> Pro/SP2 installed. It sees the AP and associates with it correctly, and I
> can do things like ping (outbound only, it seems). If I try to load a web
> site, it sometimes works but most of the time it stalls.
>
> I did a tcpdump on the wireless interface on the 'nix gateway, and I can
> see that whilst the XP laptop thinks a connection is closed the other end
> is still sending packets. It's like it never sees certain large packets.
>
> A transfer from a local site (the same nix gateway) works better, but it
> still stalls. It's like something is suddenly making the XP laptop deaf,
> and every inbound packet after that point is ignored *for that TCP
> connection only*.  A ping still works so the interface is alive.
>
> This is a strange problem and it's difficult to word... I hope I'm making
> sense, and I hope that someone has experienced this before! Prior to this
> laptop I had myself an old clunker with Win98, an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card
> and Avaya's proprietary drivers which worked flawlessly... this one has
> wireless built in and the drivers preinstalled.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers.
>
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