I hope someone can help me because I'm pretty new to wireless networks. Here's my situation: I'm sharing a 3Mb/s cable connection via a Microsoft MN-700 802.11g wireless router. The computer in the same room as the router connects to it with a normal ethernet cable, and my computer is upstairs connected via a Microsoft MN-710 802.11g USB network adapter. Both computers are running XP Pro. I know that sometimes the wireless connection will sometimes drop and then come back-that's not the problem.
Here's the problem: On the computer that connects to the router with the ethernet cable, sometimes the connection will inexplicably drop, and it will not come back unless the computer is restarted. The strange thing is that when this happens, my computer (connected wirelessly) suffers no such outage. I am still connected and I don't even see a drop off in speed. But this is really annoying for the person downstairs, who is physically connected to the router, because he has to restart his computer usually once or twice a day when this happens.
Are there any ideas about what could be causing this or how to fix it?
Here's the problem: On the computer that connects to the router with the ethernet cable, sometimes the connection will inexplicably drop, and it will not come back unless the computer is restarted. The strange thing is that when this happens, my computer (connected wirelessly) suffers no such outage. I am still connected and I don't even see a drop off in speed. But this is really annoying for the person downstairs, who is physically connected to the router, because he has to restart his computer usually once or twice a day when this happens.
Are there any ideas about what could be causing this or how to fix it?