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Weird network problem.

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Xellos2099

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I was over at a friend's place fixing his network and I find the problem very interesting, and thus needing some suggestion here. The house is using cable as internet service and use a dlink wireless router for internet in the house.

The main problem was that the family has a intel atom netbook with window 7 starter installed with integrated wireless(BAD combination, I know); it has a very hard time connecting to the network and whenever the network try to connect to the network, it will kick everyone else on the network off line. My first guess is that the integrated wireless is defective but they claim the network, work fine in library and other place, just not the home network.

I try connect to the network with my nexus one but it has a hard time connecting as well. The problem is so strange but I came to 2 theory, 1: The wireless network adapter is dying, 2: The netbook wireless is screw up 3: it is a mixture of both. So when I go to his house again tomorrow, I plan to bring a spare wireless router, a spare usb network adapter for the netbook and a Ethernet cable for testing in case we need to set things up at the router.

What is everyone take on this strange problem?
 
Given that you also have trouble connecting to the wireless network it sounds like the problem might be the DLink wireless router. You could try doing a wireless survey to make sure no neighbors are using the same wireless channel as the DLink router.
 
Xellos2099 said:
it has a very hard time connecting to the network and whenever the network try to connect to the network, it will kick everyone else on the network off line.
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Have you checked the routers ip address range - how many addresses can it hand out?

I ran into almost the same exact problem a couple of weeks ago. The people had a desktop, couple of i-pod touches, laptop, and a wireless xbox. Only 3 or 4 of the devices would work, the others could not connect. If one devices did connect, it would knock something else offline.

After checking the DHCP server settings in the router, it had been set to only hand out 4 ip addresses. That setting was changed to 50, and now everything works.
 
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