Laptop can't Connect to Internet when Desktop is Connected

[morris14ccm]

Network Structure:
Cable modem connected to main router running DD-WRT. Two cheap Rosewill routers (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166064) also running DD-WRT are connected to the main router in what I believe is a client bridge setup. These routers connect to the main router wirelessly. They do not broadcast wireless signals and the computers and switches connected to them are done so with a wired Ethernet connection.

Problem:
The network works perfectly fine most of the time. However, when a particular laptop is connected to the network it seems to connect to the local network, but there is a yellow exclamation point and it does not have Internet connectivity. As soon as I power off a particular desktop, the laptop can connect to the Internet just fine. This particular desktop is connected to one of the Rosewill routers via Ethernet.

What can I do to fix this? Previously the desktop that seems to be causing the problem was setup with a static IP. I removed the static IP setting and rebooted the router and modem and it worked fine for a couple of weeks, but more recently the problem has reoccurred. I would like to not reset all the routers to the default settings. I can't remember how I setup the two bridges, but it took a lot of trial and error that I would prefer to avoid going through again.

 

[SirSub42]

Off the top of my head, I would guess that you have more than one router acting as a DHCP server. Two devices with the same IP address on a network would cause this problem, and when you switched the desktop from static to dynamic seems to reinforce my idea. Perhaps one of the routers did not have the static IP on the exclusion list, so it was accidently assigning the same IP twice.

I would go through the settings on each router and make sure only the router running a DHCP service is the main one.

 

[morris14ccm]

Thanks, I'll look into that. Would setting both machines up with different static IPs also work?

 

[hvactech123]

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