Hi,
I just added a second laptop to my home network. When copying files from my old laptop, also wireless, that about 80% of the time the wireless connection on both computers drops out, removing both of them from the network and cancelling the transfer. They reconnect automatically usually within a minute, but by then I have to restart the file copying.
Meanwhile, the desktop PC connected via Ethernet to the same router, doesn't experience any connection loss.
Am I overloading the wireless connection or something? Not all of the files I'm transferring are big, and some transfers that fail one minute as the network craps out will work a minute later.
I'm running XP Pro sp2 on all machines and have a Belkin LAN/WLAN router connected to a cable modem. I use MAC filtering, WPA-PSK TKIP security, and have DHCP turned off.
The two notebooks have different wireless cards, but since they both give up simultaneously, I assume the problem is in the overall set-up or with the router.
Thanks.