Hi... I have got myself a pretty standard USB-IrDA Wireless Connection adapter (infrared)... Plugged it in to USB port, and windows XP auto installed it from its driver database... The phone connects to it, and it connects to the phone ---- i.e. the little infrared box symbol appears by clock and it says 'nokia 6510 in range'.... however only very rarely will this icon change to the 'transferring' image (the picture of the rays going between devices!!)... and when this occasionally happens it will very soon say the infrared connection has been interrupted/disconnected.... I'm using the Nokia Connection Manager and Nokia Phone Editor software on my PC (the software that came with my phone)... and this VERY VERY rarely detects the phone (although as i said, the icon by clock says phone in range) I'm guessing that its because the connection is continually interrupted for some bizarrre reason. The phone is only about 5cm from the infrared adapter, so its not a distance problem i dont think. Ive fiddled with the adaptor settings, changed the speed (from min to max (4Mbs) and various in between). The settings are set to default (ie adapter type and min rebound time -- i think thats what the other settings are called; i cant remember excatly!) I also installed the driver that came on the CD that came with the software, as oppose to using the winXP one... still the same problem... I'm Running windows XP and have a nokia 6510 phone by the way. And my laptop has a built in infrared port, but this doesnt work for some other reason, god knows why, tried many times to fix that with no luck, so ive disabled that interal port in the BIOS. The same problem happened with the USB one when it was disabled or not. The adapter is a y-160 by the way, by SigmaTel with driver installer version 1.26 And when i try to change the speed settings in the apaptor hardware settings, the window freezes and ends up not responding...but when i load it back up, it has remembered the speed change...but when i turn off/restart computer it hangs at the 'windows is shutting down' screen when the hardware is connected to my USB port. I'm also trying to get it to work through a 4port USB selfpowered hub (i have run out of USB ports!)... but thats another matter, i thought i'd make sure i can get it to work straight into my USB port first!! I'm just a wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why its not connecting all the time...comptuer and phone recognise something is there.. XP even knows its a nokia6510, but the nokia conenction manager or phone editor do not recognise it, and there is very rarely any transfer recognised between phone and computer, and this if it does happen very commonly gets interrupted!!!! cheers...its annoying me!! Rob

no one got any ideas?! :(