Good Morning Everyone,

I hope everyone is doing great today.  Someone here at the office has a
computer at home with a internet access through a local cable company and
has a wireless router set up to access the net via his laptop.  There is a
desktop the plugs into the wireless router, and he uses the laptop to go to
other areas of the house and access the net.  He has a strong signal with
his laptop but he keeps loosing the connection.  I went to the house and
tried to figure out what it was but we don't have wireless at the office
(small office) so I'm not that familiar with it.  He's using WEP.  We've
tried switching to WPA, but he still drops the connection.  We tried with no
security at all and he still drops the signal.

I took the laptop and used it at my brothers house because they have
wireless net access also, but the laptop didn't drop the connection.  So I
don't think it is the laptop.

His desktop doesn't seem to have a problem with the connection, it's
connected via LAN cable directly into the wireless router.(3Com)  We had a
Linksys I think before and thought it might have been the router, but not
so.  Last time I was there he had speakers and other things NEAR the router
and we thought that could have been it so we moved them and it seem to work
fine for a while.

I don't understand, when I look in the tray and open up the wireless
settings, it shows all bars and a strong signal.  We'll be online and all of
a sudden will lose the connection and get a page not found error.  We'll
look and the connection goes, even though it's set to automatic connection
it still drops.  I really don't have any idea what else it could be.

I tried to put as much information on this topic as I thought is necessary.
Does anyone have any ideas?  Using XP SP2.  I think he also tried or has
installed IE7.  This stuff started happening before we recently upgraded the
browser.  Please advise.  Thanks!

Sincerely,
Anthony Smith
In God We Trust!