My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad  with an Intel 2100 Wireless card.  I
have a wireless modem that connects with my Desktop and a DSL service.
1.    I get disconnected very often and cann't find the reason. The
signalls are strong (even with only a few feet from the router).

I am trying to setup a wireless network with windows xp.  I have a
Speedstream Wireless Router and have followed all the instructions.  I
can only find the network on my laptop only if I have the SSD on
Broadcast.  If I stop broadcasting the SSD  the network is not

We have an 8 node Lan (Linksys router) at work
that uplinks to a Wan Cable router (not a cable modem)
provided by our cable ISP.
  We used to have a cable modem for our Wan, of

I have an established ethernet network through cat5 cable in my
building. I recently acquired a small office in the building next door.
I want to be able to link a machine over there to the network in the
main building. As it is not feasible to lay a cable across to the other

I apologize in advance for posting this on multiple newsgroups, but I am
not sure which one is the most appropriate.  My daughter has an IBM 300
PL which she uses for her school work.  All the other PCs and laptops in
our home are also IBM, except for one Dell PC.  All the ...

Could someone give me a technical reason why, when I connected a cable modem
and three computers to a hub, it was faster than connecting a cable modem
and three computers with a switch?
I know that routers are the solution, but I am in a debate and am drawing on

I will be trying to sort out a simple problem with a colleague who
uses Earthlink.
She has three time asked them for her IP address She has been given an
address 172 xxx xxx xxx. Does not work. Pinged no response.

Okay as a followup to my question about Windows' unreliable networking.
It was pretty much concluded that this is a result of the randomness of
which machine picks up the browse master baton and runs with it. The
solutions were to setup a domain controller on one of the machines, ...

Hello, we have 6 nodes at work on a LAN that's
routered to a cable router/modem to WAN. The
linksys router has 5 ports and one uplink and one
data port of which goes to the cable modem/router

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