Weird Network issue

[Darisha]

Hello Everyone,

First off, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and all the best in 2011 !!!!

To get to the point. I will put out a scenario then specs.

@ my folks place I have 4mbps MWEB ADSL (which is flying at the moment because everyone is out of Jo'burg ). Whenever I connect to the network via wireless, the PC looses internet connectivity and sometimes freezes. This same thing happens when I connect to the PC to copy over downloaded content. My pops is constantly connected via WiFi at the house and his laptop and the pc work in perfect harmony, but whenever I come along, the pc starts acting up and my pops laptop is fine.

I haven't tried taking his laptop out of the network and bringing it back in.

SPECS:

My laptop - Win 7 Pro 32bit - DELL VOSTRO 115
My Dad's laptop - Win 7 Pro 32bit - Packardbell (something newish)
PC - Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Modem - Billion W40 or Billion W40 000 (one of those Billions that you get when you sign up with MWEB)

Now I don't know if its the modem that is causing this or the PC ..... why would there be a conflict in the first place?

If you can, please help! All and any suggestions are welcome.

Thank you.

 

[DuckieZA]

Sounds like a IP address collision, maybe your PC and the other one have the same IP address? You should check that the modem/router is using DHCP & that the PCs are not using hard-coded IP addresses.

 

[Darisha]

Already checked that. The BILLION has DHCP enabled and the PC receives an IP, my laptop receives another IP (a different one - 192.168.1.3 [PC] & 192.168.1.4 [my laptop])

The funny thing is, that today I took my old mans laptop off the network and reconnected it and nothing out of the ordinary happend ...... only with my laptop ...... when my laptop joins the network, everything goes bonkers .... ???#@$%^???

 

[Treschen]

are you able to browse the net the moment you connect or do you have no connectivity from the moment you connect ?

 

[syntax]

The pc loses connectivity or your laptop? From your post it sounds like the pc?

If so, does your laptop function normally once connected? Can the pc ping etc once u connect the laptop?
For the sake of sanity can you give outputs of ipconfig /all on the pc and laptop

What happens if the pc is off the network, just both laptops are on. Then you add the pc?
what are the machine/host names of the laptop and pc