Hi, I've installed a belkin router (belkin F5D7632UK4) at my girlfriends
house with a view to both sharing the broadband connection with two
laptops.
One has in-built wireless capability (a HP machine which has built-in
wireless and lets windows handle it's wireless config) and on the other we
installed a wireless network card (belkin F5D7010UK on a compaq machine).
This seemed to work correctly for around two weeks until, when both
machines were being used at the same time, the connection to the compaq
machine initially disappeared. The lights on the card would be on, the
utility would see the router etc..however it would intermittedly 'pass
out'. the lights would go off and the connection disappear. This made
accessing the internet impossible and very annoying seeing as it is a
belkin router and a belkin network card.
I reinstalled the card to see if that would fix it but it didn't. I then
clicked the checkbox to allow windows to handle the wireless configuration.
This seemed to fix the problem on the compaq machine.
However when the two machines were being used at the same time about a week
later the fault has appeared again. this is very annoying as you can
imagine.
I've pretty much established that when the HP machine is using the wireless
connection it seems to bump the compaq machine off the shared
connection.
Do you have any suggestions on how to remedy this situation? If you do I
would be most grateful.
andy
Junior Member Posts: 15 Registered: 10/9/05 Status: Offline
posted on 11/9/05 at 08:30
Hi,
Some suggestions to try, i would turn on all the pcs connect to the
network, the run the netwoking wizzard on all pcs, its in my network
places on the left setup a home or small office network as you got
throgh it make sure the workgroup name is the same on all pcs usually
MSHOME and select connect through residential gateway, it will setup the ip
addresses you will see the connection drop then reconnect, you can also
select weather you want to share files and printers, when the wizzard is
finished select the option at the bottom i think its just exit or
something like that then click the box.
Hope it helps
