i need help really bad. ive never had trouble with my router untill about 2 weeks ago when i moved into my new spot. i have insight cable and a wrt54g router. the problem is now me and my roomate just randomly get dropped from the internet. it just stops. and i have to reboot my computer to get connection back. now whats strange about this is that i used to always just have one ip assigned to me thru the mac address from the router..but everytime we get dropped we get a different ip from the router. at first i thought it was my roomates xbox conflicting with IP's of other computers on the network, because the mac address of his box changes everytime he turns it on. ive never seen somethin like that, cuz i thought they were only supposed to have one mac address..but since his xbox's mac address changes everytime, the router gives it a new IP everytime. we tried giveing his xbox a static IP but still got disconnected everytime he tried to do anything with his xbox. then i thought it was Azureus giving us conflicting ports since we both were trying to use the same port thru the router (6881-6889), so i went to bitcommet and used vastly different ports (17702) and we still get randomly disconnected. ive gone thru lots of tests and i really cant get my head around this one. i tried to set static IP's for us all but that equals no internet when i reboot the pc's . and i dont really understand why his xbox takes over IP's everytime he reboots it. i have an ip on my puter, but when he turns his xbox on sometimes it takes the IP that my computer had. isnt the router supposed to assign it a different ip based on the mac address? its just odd that the internet will work for maybe a day or so and then just crap out and we have to restart either the pc's or the router. this is very annoying during aim convo's or when we get booted from halo2 cuz it thinks we are standbying. any help would be greatly appreciated. cuz im lost on this one.

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