Our wifi router disconnects more often when I'm connected..

[Syringer]

So there's 4 of us connected to our wifi wirelessly, and it seems when my laptop is on the network we end up having to reset the router every hour or so--and when I'm not it's more like every 4-5 hours.

Is there any reason this could be? I'm not d/ling anything or using up any extra bandwidth--the only difference maybe that my laptop is older, and I'm on XP whereas they're all on Vista.

Any ideas on what we could do about it?

 

[ch33zw1z]

The more people that are connected, the more resources being used up. The fact that you have to reboot every 4-5 hours anyways is a problem. What router and firmware are you using?

 

[Syringer]

When someone else is off the router though, it still rarely disconnects--and when I'm on it myself it disconnects pretty often as well.

It's a WRT54G, not sure what firmware is on there right now.

 

[ch33zw1z]

If you're using the stock firmware, check out linksys website for latest. sometimes weird issues like that can be cleared with the firmware update...sometimes it's a hardware problem. worth a shot though

 

[RadiclDreamer]

If you are running BT or other P2P programs they can open LOTS of connections and flood most weak home routers