You may also want to check the properties of your internal card to see if
there is a power save or power management option enable...if so disable it.
Also you may want to check to the Authentication is enable if so disable it.


Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Gillett
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 11:14 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Internal Wireless Card Problem

  XP will create a new entry under "Network Connections" when it detects the

presence of the external card.  Also in Network Connections, you can set the

connection via the built-in card as "Disabled".

David Gillett


On 26 Mar 2006 at 19:42, Becky wrote:

>  My husband and I have 2 wireless laptops. We both have internal wireless 
> cards. Our signals come from the same router and modem. His computer drops

> the signal a lot and has done so from the time we ordered it from Gateway
3 
> years ago. It was sent back to the company for work on that and other
things 
> last summer but they said they could not replicate the dropped signals. My

> question is how do I do away with the internal card and install an
external 
> card? Until recently we had a used laptop with an external card and never 
> had a dropped signal which tells me it's the internal card at fault.
Advice? 
> Help?  Thanks
> 
> Becky Buehrer 

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