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I have recently purchased a Sony Vaio Laptop with wifi support that is inbuilt or onboard. I already have a Asus P5E3 Deluxe motherboard at my home with ram 2 gb, 9800 gtx card and a quad core processor. Now, I connect this pc with a broadband connection at home running 1mbps speed. This motherboard also has a wifi onboard connection. What I am trying to do is setup this wifi connection so that my laptop can also connect to the internet wirelessly. For this I have installed the wifi driver of Asus (something called Asus WiFi-AP @n software) and configured it with giving it a proper connection name and a password. I have successfully done all the wifi network setup wizard on the pc and it is working well. Now the problem is that, my laptop is able to find this wifi connection but after sometime it gives an error saying to troubleshoot network connection and the wifi network disappears from the laptop and again i have to search for this wifi network and the cycle continues. Similarly, when I am trying to connect my Nokia e90 mobile phone with the pc via wifi, my phone is able to pickup the wifi connection and sometimes it is able to connect to the internet and I am also able to browse different websites but sometimes it gives me a gateway time out error. So, can anyone tell me how can i connect my sony vaio laptop to the internet wirelessly by using the Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP @n connection? Also if possible, then please let me know how to connect my phone as well, which is a secondary question. Thank you in advance.

Note that - The operating system that I am using on my pc with Asus P5E3 Deluxe motherboard is having Windows XP installed on it and on the sony vaio laptop windows 7 is installed.

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Intermittent SSID visibility on a PC-hosted hotspot plus gateway timeouts from phones usually points to one or more of: the vendor “SoftAP” software (Asus WiFi‑AP@n) running in the wrong mode or being unstable, DHCP/ICS/NAT problems on the host, driver/power‑save issues, or encryption incompatibilities. As noted, a cheap standalone wireless router or AP will eliminate most of these variables and is the simplest, most reliable fix.

Quick practical checklist (run these in order):

  1. Confirm AP mode and security: check the Asus WiFi‑AP@n utility on the XP host and verify whether it created an Infrastructure (AP) network or an Ad‑hoc (peer‑to‑peer) network. Many phones and some clients have trouble with ad‑hoc networks.
  2. Verify addressing: on both machines capture the IP info with ipconfig and compare the host wireless adapter IP, the client IP, gateway and DNS. A 169.254.x.x IP on the laptop/phone = DHCP failure.
  3. Basic connectivity tests (from a client): 
ipconfig /all
ping -t <gateway_IP>
nslookup www.google.com
  1. If DHCP is failing, test with a static client IP in the same subnet as the host wireless adapter (gateway = host wireless IP; use a public DNS like 8.8.8.8) to see whether routing/NAT works.
  2. Temporarily disable firewalls/antivirus on the XP host, disable wireless power‑saving on both adapters (Device Manager → NIC → Power Management), and update/uninstall+reinstall the Asus WiFi‑AP@n drivers and the host wireless chipset drivers.

If problems persist after those checks, the most reliable resolution is a dedicated wireless router or AP. If the SoftAP must be kept, focus on forcing infrastructure/AP mode, confirming a working DHCP/NAT (ICS) service on the XP host, and using a single, simple security setting (WPA2‑AES where supported) while testing.

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I know that if I buy a router, then you can connect multiple computers and so on, but I do not use a router. I am going to make a laptop wireless signal to the motherboard and put the laptop in its entirety and can not receive the wireless signal, but soon after, I said that to solve network problems. Then there is a solution to this....

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