The little icon on the task bar is not always an accurate and reliable indicator of the status of your connection. If you are having occasional dropouts of signal, try repositioning your laptop either closer to the wireless transmitter or in a more direct, line-of-sight position. Sometimes it becomes necessary to install a wireless "extender" which boosts the signal to enable you to stay connected, especially if there are several other wireless networks within range of your machine.
Sounds like the networking is not completely setup correctly. Go into your network settings by double-clicking on your network card in "Networks" (not on the wireless card...) Now see if there is an option to disable that device temporarily (sort of like turning your wireless card off) and then try your wireless communications again.
From what I see you saying is the computer keeps jumping back and forth between the "hard wire" connection and the "wireless" connection when the signal to the wireless either drops momentarily or the signal gets weak.....
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It does not seem to be the signal strength as an issue. We have been traveling over the holidays using a few dirrerent wireless connections and the problem will occur, even when sitting next to a router. Some web pages, the "connect broadband connection" displays quite a bit. You go to another page and never see the box, back to that original page and it starts again. When you try to connect in the "connect broadband connection" box it is trying a WAN port and says it is waiting to retry and redial.
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