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Either laptop or desktop on n/work, but not both.

#1 trouble at mill

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Posted 08 July 2010 - 01:08 PM

Hello,
My neighbor, has a problem with his home network, he has a Netgear DG834G hub and has his desktop running XP connected by network cable, he also has a laptop running Vista connected by wireless connection. The problem is: he can use the desktop, everything is fine, but to get his laptop to connect he has to disconnect the desktop, he cannot get them both working at the same time. Any ideas why?

#2 kennzsniper

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Posted 08 July 2010 - 02:40 PM

The DG834G is an ADSL wireless modem router.

Its sounds to me like the ADSL modem is setup to bridge the connection and not use NAT.

Please have your neighbor contact Netgear support to disable the bridge and enable the NAT so that he can share the network.

Hardware tech when I was in college.
1st job was a network support for SOHO
2nd job was lappy tech
3rd Job way out of my league but its nice...