> Randall Gellens wrote: > I have been consistently unable to maintain a connection > for more than a very few minutes, usually not even lon > enough to establish a VPN tunnel and fetch one message. > The 802.11 coverage comes and goes; the APs seem to > vanish and I see nothing for a while, eventually the > network comes back but only briefly. This has been > the case in every session I've attended, as well as > tonight's plenary. It doesn't seem to matter if the > room is crowded or empty, or where I sit. I have had the same issue. Not suggesting the way I solved it is the "right" one, it turned out that when I replaced my Linksys 802.11b with a brand new Motorola 802.11g the problem went away; there is a Radio Shark on the third floor of City Center that sells them for $70. If your WiFi card is a removable PCMCIA one, try to swap it temporarily with another one; some of the older card would work fine in less crowded environments but can't take the heat of the kind of WiFi we have for meetings. Michel.