I just moved in with my mother and stepfather and he has Alltel DSL and a desktop pc running XP. I own a Linsys wireless router with 4 ethernet ports on the back. I tried to hook it up so that I could use the internet on my laptop (also XP) from the other room while he could connect to the internet by having his desktop wired into the back of the router and the DSL modem wired into the router instead of the back of his PC like it was before I came along. The problem is my laptop (wireless) can never connect to the internet unless I go to the desktop and select "disconnect" on his connection. then it works fine until he comes along and reconnects his desktop's connection. What am i doing wrong? We must be able to both connect at the same time. Is there a setting somewhere? I am at a loss and tech support at Linksys and Alltel seem to barely know anything about anything. -Thanks
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17 years ago