I have a Netgear Router to share connection with 2 computers (xp and vista).The connection speed works perfectly when only 1 computer is on but while i turn both computers on, my xp computer's connection starts dropping and lags like crazy. then i restart my router and then the connection goes back to normal speed for like 5minutes and it starts dropping again. this problem bugs me, because i cant have 2 computers online at the same time. (it doesn't matter which computer turns on first or second.) Please Help~~ any suggestion is appreciated! wtf

What are you doing with the second computer when you turn it on? Are you downloading anything, streaming video?

Watch the taskman network bandwidth on both after a router restart. It should help point to which device be it cpu 1 2 or router. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

Sounds like a malware infection on both. First one on the internet starts uploading/downloading which hogs the bandwidth. Or you have a misconfigured or defective router. Simple test: bring both up. Bring a cmd prompt up on both and do a ping [others ip address] -t This will get ping to continue. Pull the internet cord [not the lan cords] from the router. Do the ping times go down? Imagine the power if you knew how to internet search

The consensus is that one PC is hogging the bandwidth. You may want to ensure that you have enabled QoS service on the NIC on both PCs. But that will only help when running certain kinds of software - and it's suppose to ensure software that needs bandwidth gets the needed amount, i.e. streaming video requirements for bandwidth are high. Examine how you use the two PC's regarding software. You may want to start both PC's with a minimal startup config and then see if the problem still exists. If so, then it's probably a configuration problem or maybe bad hardware???

how do i enable the QoS service on the NIC on both PCs, and whats a minimal startup config... because i not very familiar with PC stuff =.=.. please give me directions step by step =(... thank you for all u guys' replies wtf