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I just moved in with my mother and stepfather and he has Alltel DSL and
a desktop pc running XP. I own a Linsys wireless router with 4
ethernet ports on the back. I tried to hook it up so that I could use
the internet on my laptop (also XP) from the other room while he could
connect to the internet by having his desktop wired into the back of
the router and the DSL modem wired into the router instead of the back
of his PC like it was before I came along. The problem is my laptop
(wireless) can never connect to the internet unless I go to the desktop
and select "disconnect" on his connection. then it works fine until he
comes along and reconnects his desktop's connection. What am i doing
wrong? We must be able to both connect at the same time. Is there a
setting somewhere? I am at a loss and tech support at Linksys and
Alltel seem to barely know anything about anything. -Thanks
I just moved in with my mother and stepfather and he has Alltel DSL and
a desktop pc running XP. I own a Linsys wireless router with 4
ethernet ports on the back. I tried to hook it up so that I could use
the internet on my laptop (also XP) from the other room while he could
connect to the internet by having his desktop wired into the back of
the router and the DSL modem wired into the router instead of the back
of his PC like it was before I came along. The problem is my laptop
(wireless) can never connect to the internet unless I go to the desktop
and select "disconnect" on his connection. then it works fine until he
comes along and reconnects his desktop's connection. What am i doing
wrong? We must be able to both connect at the same time. Is there a
setting somewhere? I am at a loss and tech support at Linksys and
Alltel seem to barely know anything about anything. -Thanks