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Hi Shawn,

If you're not a CWAP or CWNE, you should be moving in that direction. :-) Nice work.

I didn't see any mistakes on your part.

Yes, the "if permitted by medium access rules" means standard physical and virtual carrier sense rules.

The next step in testing is to see if a regular RTS/CTS transmission *from* an AP *to* your Intel adapter causes it to respond. The way to do this is to set the RTS/CTS threshold in the AP to something WAY low, like 100 bytes. Then, get on a wired node and ping your Intel card. If the Intel card responds, then something's wrong with the RTS frames being sent from the LRs. If your Intel card doesn't respond:

1) update your client software and make SURE to replace the driver file (which doesn't get done automatically with intel adapters during an upgrade)
2) try letting both the intel client utilities and the windows Zero Config client control the adapter (at separate times obviously)
3) install the new microsoft windows xp/sp2 patch that just came out this week.
4) make sure your intel card isn't in that DUMB mode they call throughput enhancement
5) tinker with your RTS/CTS settings in your intel client utility

If none of those work, it's time to switch to a different card. :-)

Devinator