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wife's puter keeps crapping out my router

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phillydog

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I'm hoping someone can help.

I have my win/2003 PC connected to my router, and all is fine. When I hook my wife's win/xp home pc to the router it is initially fine, but then after awhile (usually when I am at work....away from the computer), the router craps out, and I am unable to get to my website or terminal service into my box.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

I am thinking of replacing her network card, but I'd like to leave that as a last resort.

Please help.
 
You don't give a whole lot of information to go on but here's a few ideas:

1. ensure the router has the latest firmware
2. ensure your wife's computer is virus and malware free
 
Thanks for the reply.

Both computers are virus free using McAfee 8i Enterprise scanned daily with the latest updates. Both have the latest Microsoft patches, and both are scanned weekly using Windows Defender, Spybot 1.3, and AdAware SE 1.06.

The router does have the latest firmware according to Belkin who makes the router.

Both computers are using static IPs if that makes a difference.

I used to think it was the cable modem going out and not the router until one day I decided to try going to \\<computer2> from her computer and it didn't work, then I realized it was the router.

My (win2003) computer can't see her winxp box, but she can see mine. Could that have something to do with it?
 
Best bet is to set the Router to Automatically Assign an IP
and set your computer NIC Cards to also get an IP Automatically

See if that helps .... very likely it will
 
The only thing I can think of is excessive traffic/connections from wifes computer.

It woudn't be a bad idea to download ethereal and see what her computer is putting onto the wire.

Need a little information though. Use ping to try various computers and www.google.com. that should provide a better picture of what isn't working. Don't worry about not "seeing" computers. That isn't trustworthy for troubleshooting.
 
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