Whenever I connect to my wireless internet at home with my Lenovo laptop while someone is on the desktop surfing the web, the internet craps out for both computers. It only wants to work for either the laptop or the desktop. However, my bro is able to surft the web with his little netbook while some is using the desktop. How do I fix this? Thanks.
There is a setting in your router that lets you set the number of connections to your wireless router at one time.
Last edited by killer21 (2010-08-10 04:07:26)
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Yep. Check that.killer21 wrote:
There is a setting in your router that lets you set the number of connections to your wireless router at one time.
I would also look into setting up a static IP for each of your devices in the house to make sure there aren't any IP address conflicts happening. I had that problem with my two laptops here at my place and once I set up static IPs it fixed the problem.
Ah, before I forget: there is also a setting that you can tell your router to start assigning IPs starting with a certain number. So set your static IPs to say x.x.x.10 and x.x.x.11 for your own personal computers and then for whenever a friend comes over your router should start assigning IPs at x.x.x.50. The x's are the initial IP address numbers for your personal router (my Linksys, for instance, is 192.168.1.x).
as nismo suggested, make sure dhcp is enabled on the router, and your computers aren't using static ip's
I checked my settings and DHCP is enabled and the maximum number of DHCP users is 50 ( I guess that's the standard number but it seems like a lot). The static DNS numbers are all 0.0.0.0, if that helps at all...lol. How would i confirm that my laptop isn't using a static ip adress because I think it might be? Thanks and yes I am a n00b when it comes to this stuff...
WinXP:
Start>network connections. right click the enabled one>properties>internet protocol (tcp/ip)>properties (button)
Start>network connections. right click the enabled one>properties>internet protocol (tcp/ip)>properties (button)
And if you have Windows 7:
Click Start > Control Panel > Network Sharing and Connection Center > click on Local Area Connection > click properties at the bottom of the window > double click on "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) if your laptop has a static IP address assigned the Use the following IP address would be selected and you would see an IP address
Note: I'll delete if you aren't using Windows 7
Click Start > Control Panel > Network Sharing and Connection Center > click on Local Area Connection > click properties at the bottom of the window > double click on "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) if your laptop has a static IP address assigned the Use the following IP address would be selected and you would see an IP address
Note: I'll delete if you aren't using Windows 7
I followed your instructions and "Use the following IP address" is not checked for my laptop when I'm connected to the internets, which means it does not have a static IP address. Right?TravisC555 wrote:
And if you have Windows 7:
Click Start > Control Panel > Network Sharing and Connection Center > click on Local Area Connection > click properties at the bottom of the window > double click on "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) if your laptop has a static IP address assigned the Use the following IP address would be selected and you would see an IP address
Note: I'll delete if you aren't using Windows 7
Any other solutions? And thanks for the help!
Well there still might be the issue of getting the same ip address assigned to all your tech. I would try setting up static IPs for each computer.
Have to wait for some Win7 guru to tell ya how to do tha though. I still use XP.
What I can tell you is to use the google namebench app and find the best DNS servers. http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
When it finds them, I assume there's 2-3 boxes in win7 to type them in.
Have to wait for some Win7 guru to tell ya how to do tha though. I still use XP.
What I can tell you is to use the google namebench app and find the best DNS servers. http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
When it finds them, I assume there's 2-3 boxes in win7 to type them in.
Right. To assign static IP to a computer::blacKOut: wrote:
I followed your instructions and "Use the following IP address" is not checked for my laptop when I'm connected to the internets, which means it does not have a static IP address. Right?TravisC555 wrote:
And if you have Windows 7:
Click Start > Control Panel > Network Sharing and Connection Center > click on Local Area Connection > click properties at the bottom of the window > double click on "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) if your laptop has a static IP address assigned the Use the following IP address would be selected and you would see an IP address
Note: I'll delete if you aren't using Windows 7
Any other solutions? And thanks for the help!
We need to get some info:
Click start, in the search bar at the bottom of the start menu type cmd, press enter. Then type ipconfig /all at the command prompt.
1. Look for Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection
2. If your computer doesn't have a static ip address DHCP should be enabled
3. Make note of this IP address we will need it
4. Make note of these IP addresses, if you don't see anything you can use what Tdog suggested in his reply above. Or you can use Google's public DNS in that case type in 8.8.8.8 in the first box, and 8.8.4.4 in the second box in "Use the following DNS server addresses"
Go to where I told you in my last post:
Check the "Use the following IP address" > In the IP address box type an IP address for example for computer 1 type in 192.168.1.101, for computer 2 192.168.1.102, etc
Now type in the IP address for the computer (ex 192.168.1.101)
Next type in 255.255.255.0 in the subnet mask box (You can leave this blank if you want to. After you have entered all the information and click ok a warning will appear, just click ok, and it will automatically fill this in for you)
Next type in the default gateway (your router) IP address which would be number 3 in the picture above (which you noted earlier)
Next type in the DNS ip address either using the ones in number 4 pictured above (which you noted earlier), or the Google public DNS addresses. Or you can use tdogs program he linked to and use those addresses
Repeat this for each computer, but keep changing the last number of the IP address by one (ex computer 1 is 192.168.1.101, computer 2 is 192.168.1.102, etc)
Are all your computers on your network running windows 7?
Sorry for the long post. If you have any questions pm me or post here.
Last edited by TravisC555 (2010-08-11 07:30:10)