Alright, this is about to drive me off the wall. I thought it was gone, but it’s come back. The problem is an IP address conflict, followed by a lovely yellow ! with a triangle around it in my system tray. I have four computers hooked up to this network. Two wireless, two wired, all through a Linksys WRT54G router. There is also a network storage box. That makes five connections.
With that said, my network randomly freezes… which can be devastating when doing something important such as chat, games, email, etc. It’ll come back to life anywhere from 5 seconds to 30 seconds.
Wait! Don’t say anything yet. Look at this screenshot… who are you trying to FOOL Windows? (You may have to click to zoom in)
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v228/Nivan/?action=view¤t=Ipconflict.jpg
So.. obviously, there’s something I’m missing or Windows is going nuts. Not only that.. I can’t set static ips.
I can set dynamic ips as they are from my router’s DHCP and it works fine.. I can copy that information and manually set it under TCP/IP properties, but that doesn’t do a thing except cut off my internet connection.
I’m no rookie to networking, have googled all over the place. Someone have a suggestion?
