If I close all my Internet windows and then re-open them, I cannot connect. There seems to be an IP address issue. For some reason my Vista machine and my XP machine seem to have the same IP addy, and it's causing a conflict on both machines.

I've tried asigning IP's in the router but that failed, and I couldn't get on line W/ either machine.

The only way I've been able to connect the Vista machine is to re-set the router and then connect.
I have to do this every time after I disconnect from the net.

I've been able to work through all the driver and software compatibility issues almost without event.

My router seems to be my only problem.

Any Ideas????

TIA

jmhandy

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i assume that there are 2 machines WinXP & Vista and that they are using their own network cards. also, you own and have full access to the router. (some ISPs that provide the router limit the number of PCs connected on the router)

The IP Address is manually assigned on the PC level, not at the router. on the router you can only set the range of IPs and the router IP. since IPs are assigned based on the MAC Address for the network card and since no MAC address is the same there might be something wrong with the range of IPs.

try the following:
1. Go to the router and set the IP lease time to forever.
2. Check the range of IPs that can be asssigned by the router (either 1-253 or 2-254 (254 or 1 used by the router). change them if required.

restart router & PCs and if it still does not work:

3. on each PC go to network properties and on the internet protocol (TCP/IP) properties manually set the IP for the PC. then restart.

Check your router. normally there should be an area with the list of PCs and the IPs assigned to them. Check this also.