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Wireless connection may have a fault ?


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rxkevco

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Have had a wireless card in my pc for some months now,, and working via the
router, i have had no problems whatsoever with it,,,been quite pleased to be honest.

However,, have just noticed a bit if a fault/ bug,,, wondered if anyone has seen this before ??

After bootup,, when windows opens,,the usual green bar graph appears in the system tray to show the wireless signal strenghth,,,and the wireless icon appears also,,but this wireless icon has started to act a little differently that before,,, will try to explain,,,

The wireless connection icon, is the little pc monitor in the system tray,, that has a few lines/radio waves coming from the icon,, to identify that it is active and that a connection is present,,, hope your with me so far,,,,,, Now,,,the connection is there,i can acess internet and mail etc,, and when i hover over the icon, it comes up as being active with an excelleny signal,, but,,, along the bottom of the icon of the monitor in the system tray, there is a little yellow ball, moving from left to right underneath the icon ????
Cant seem to find out what this means,, although it doesnt prevent me from doing anything on the pc,, and certainly doesnt interfere with my connection.
I have clicked on the "repair " option in the drop down box,,, and windows thenproceeds to repair the connection,, The yellow ball disapears and the normal "active connection pc icon returns???
However, a box does appear that says,,something about

" windows not being able to finish the repair because the following action couldnt be completed,,, clearing the DNS cache "???? "

Its not causing me any problems,, and seemsa bit petty to be posting on here,, but it does seem to be a fault, and i would like to find out whats causing it,, and how it can be fixed correctly. Its not a chore doing a repair to the wireless connection each time i start the pc,,,
but i shouldnt have to be doing this ,,should i ??????

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,, cheers,, kev.
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Dan

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Hi Kev,

It would be doing that if it was trying to create a connection; are you sure this is not happening on your LAN connection, rather than your Wireless? If it's complaining about clearing your DNS cache, you can do that manually.. Flush your DNS Cache by going to Start, Run, type CMD, and then type: IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS -- press enter -- now type: IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS. Any errors appear?

If your connection's working fine, then I'd suggest that we don't fiddle around too much to try to nail down the problem.. Not really worth compromising your connection just out of curiosity; right? If you really want to work on it, let me know :whistling:

Happy enough to try a few things to sate the curiosity.
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