Robin Halligan
1/7/2011 10:50:00 PM
previously posted
>> I have a weird problem on my network at home
>>
>> I have 2 computers on the network
>> 1 win 7
>> 1 win xp
>> and a D-link dsl 504T modem/router
>>
>> when the internet is up and running, i can connect (and so can my wife) to
>> browser and surf, read mail/news groups and windows live the wife can fire
>> up wow and vent and we can still browse ect.
>>
>> as soon as i fire up wow the router seems to die though the wife can still
>> play and vent but we cannot establish any new connections and to fix it we
>> need to shut down my puter and the router and reboot, it looks to me as if
>> wow has done this but this has only happened in the last week
>>
>> I have checked with my isp and they have checked and say my connection
>> looks good.
>>
>> this is strange has anyone heard of anything like this?
>>
>> Robin Halligan aka Queeble Taurn shammy (Dath'rama)
>
> Going out on a limb here, I would say that the the router has developed
> a problem with, um, routing. It would show up as okay to your ISP, but
> it is bogging down when you demand too much of it. It is at least four
> or five years old, is it not? Might be time for a replacement.
ok found a "work around"
all i did was go in to the network settings on my and my wife's computer
and give us a fixed ip address rather than let the router assign one and
that seems to have sorted the problem.