Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Microsoft MN-700 Incompatibilities with Mobile Devices?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 12:00 PM
A few weeks ago I replaced my Microsoft MN-500 with an MN-700, which is an 802.11g firewall/gateway/wireless access point. It has worked flawlessly with my Fujitsu P5010D 802.11g notebook, and the iPAQ 4100 series Pocket PC. Yet for some reason, I can't connect using the Socket 802.11b SDIO WiFi card, or with the Dell Axim 3Xi.
When I connect the Socket card, it keeps blinking and trying to connect, but it never does. With the Dell Axim 3Xi, it connects, but the Axim doesn't report a valid IP address. On the router side of things, I can tell that the X3i has connected and received a valid IP (192.168.2.173) by comparing the MAC addresses. But the Axim is reporting an IP of...ok, after the fifth time, it found the correct IP address. How utterly strange! 8O [Later: the next time I turned it on, it had the invalid IP again!]
I still can't get the Socket card to work however, and when I spoke to a Socket representative at CTIA in Vegas, this was the first they had heard of it. Any other MN-700 users having issues with connecting their Pocket PCs?
UPDATE: Well, it seems this was much ado about nothing, at least as far as the Socket SDIO card is concerned - after hard resetting my iPAQ 1945 and installing the latest Socket drivers for the SDIO WiFi card, I was able to connect to the network, enter my WEP key, and start surfing. Does anyone know of a good speed test site for Pocket PCs? I tried three but none would work properly. The Dell Axim X3i still seems to have issues with the MN-700 and WEP...
When I connect the Socket card, it keeps blinking and trying to connect, but it never does. With the Dell Axim 3Xi, it connects, but the Axim doesn't report a valid IP address. On the router side of things, I can tell that the X3i has connected and received a valid IP (192.168.2.173) by comparing the MAC addresses. But the Axim is reporting an IP of...ok, after the fifth time, it found the correct IP address. How utterly strange! 8O [Later: the next time I turned it on, it had the invalid IP again!]
I still can't get the Socket card to work however, and when I spoke to a Socket representative at CTIA in Vegas, this was the first they had heard of it. Any other MN-700 users having issues with connecting their Pocket PCs?
UPDATE: Well, it seems this was much ado about nothing, at least as far as the Socket SDIO card is concerned - after hard resetting my iPAQ 1945 and installing the latest Socket drivers for the SDIO WiFi card, I was able to connect to the network, enter my WEP key, and start surfing. Does anyone know of a good speed test site for Pocket PCs? I tried three but none would work properly. The Dell Axim X3i still seems to have issues with the MN-700 and WEP...
