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Title: Windows 7 kicking other clients off of wifi network
Post by: markiemarksf on May 13, 2010, 05:59:37 PM

A client of mine just purchased a new Lenovo Thinkpad SL510 laptop with built in wireless.

He is telling me that when he connects to his DIR-655 wifi router at home that the other two laptops (Windows XP machines) are disconnected.

The wifi network is open with no security.

Can anyone offer any suggestions as how to troubleshoot this issue?  Thanks! 

Title: Re: Windows 7 kicking other clients off of wifi network
Post by: Ronneske on May 14, 2010, 12:42:26 AM

Did he limit the number of DHCP clients in the router?

Title: Re: Windows 7 kicking other clients off of wifi network
Post by: markiemarksf on May 14, 2010, 09:06:13 AM

No...  as a matter of fact he is telling me that to get the other clients to reconnect that he does a hard reset on the router (thereby resetting it to factory defaults).

Thanks.

Title: Re: Windows 7 kicking other clients off of wifi network
Post by: Sammydad1 on May 16, 2010, 12:27:22 AM

Hi,

As a thought, because that should not be happening....

Have him disable  "WLAN Partition"  in the router setups....save an reboot the router (not hard reset)...see if that helps...

Title: Re: Windows 7 kicking other clients off of wifi network
Post by: Tired Techie on May 25, 2010, 09:33:29 PM

You may be the victim of the  "wireless restart".

I recently put a Windows 7 machine (hardwired) on my network. Windows 7 uses IPv6 which confuses the router and causes it to restart the wireless connections often - thus the dropped connections seen on the wireless. The evidence of the wireless restarts is seen in the router log file.

I turned off IPv6 on Windows 7 and the problem seems to be gone.