Router/Connection

[Glasgow]

Well, im on a router with my mom. her computer is in the next room.

It seems that whenever she logs on her computer while im on mine, i lose my connection. This can be quite annoying sometimes, especially if im playing an online game and am in the middle of a fight. Is there some way to stop this interference?

[Underage_Thinker]

whats the router model do you have and what kinda internet do you have, DSL, Cable etc. and what is its speed?

[Hyper]

Hmm by my newb knowledge of connections nothing like that should happen, you'd loose speed but not your connection so yeah.. I'll just shut up and let Underage_Thinker aid you :P

[Aηdy]

Can you tell us a bit more how its set up?

[Glasgow]

Lol i totally forgot about this thread. Ill give more info tommorow when its bright

[Glasgow]

Alright. Its a Linksys Cable/DSL Router, with 4-port switch.

I was just on the net, and my mom logged in and then it all went to shit and took like 3 mins to go back to normal. Arg

[Triple7]

How are IPs on the network being assigned? DHCP?

[Blahages]

I would expect it to act somewhat like that IF both computers were assigned a Static address that happened to be the same. But, usually if that happens, a little yellow pop up balloon would pop up in your system tray and tell you that.

And, by logging on, I assume turning her computer on?

Try checking the IP Addresses on both machines.

Start > Run > CMD > ipconfig

It should be in the form 192.168.x.x usually.

[Ddeswz]

If both of their IPs were to be the same, he would see a nice window alert telling him that a duplicate exists on the network. Have you tried to update your firmware?