SMC ADSL Barricade g review

Saturday 4 September 2004, 4:44 AM

Do not know the product, but some advice.

Just in case anyone still has a disconnection problem: often times, the cause is not the wireless zero configuration utility, though that can exagerate the problem due to attempting to re-negotiate the wireless link every so often.

I have found the true culprit to be 802.1x authentication enabled by default on network adapters in Windows XP. If the router does not support this feature or if it is not correctly configured, WZC will fail to negotiate an authenticated link with the router and will disable the adapter.

I have sorted out 100% of my disconnection problems by disabling 802.1x authentication as per the recommendation of the XP SP2 readme file.

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