I have 2 HP DV6000-series laptops, one XP, one Vista. Like you, the XP
machine WiLAN performance is faultless. The Vista one has very poor
connectivity and data speeds are horrible. It doesn't help that the WiFi
dialogs, so simple and easy in XP are now a convoluted mess in Vista! I have
HP working on it though. Probably a driver issue.

J :-)

"jinky" <jamiemagnet******.com> wrote in message
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> Hey Julie,
> You are not alone, the same thing is happening to me. If I run my
> wireless router in unsecured mode, it works fine, I get five bars of
> connectivity. As soon as I add security, my connectivity starts to drop
> down to almost nothing and eventually I loose my connection. I have an
> XP laptop and a Vista laptop. The XP laptop works perfectly connecting
> to the route while sitting about 6 inches away from the Vista machine,
> the Vista machine connects after a reboot, but after a short time
> looses its connection and cannot connect back to it without a reboot.
>
>
> Jamie
>
>
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> jinky[/color]