Here’s the problem: I get kicked off the internet connection every time I use the wireless connection at the same time my sister’s computer is. If I’m happily navigating the web and my sister decides to check her email or something, it kicks me off but leaves her computer connected.
Here’s the situation: Our ISP is Cox Cable and we receive our connection from a Toshiba cable modem. The ISP and Modem work just fine as far as I can tell. It is connected to a Netgear WGR614 v4 wireless router.
There are 3 computers in the household at all times, for all intensive purposes. My father’s computer, a macintosh, is hardwired to the router in port 1 so he is not on the wireless network. His computer always has a working connection. My sister’s computer is also a macintosh, a laptop. It connects wirelessly to the router and always has a working connection. MY computer uses Windows, it’s a Toshiba laptop. I have a working internet connection at all times except when my sister’s computer has some sort of online activity, which promptly boots me off the network. As far as I can test it, this seems like the only factor in my loosing my connection. When my sister was away at college 2 years earlier than me, I had a perfect connection all the time. Now we’re both home for Winter Break, and once again I periodically lose my connection. I began to suspect the issue had to do with her computer being present, and the next time my connection dropped I knocked on her door and asked if she had just opened a web browser or something. She had. So I told her to hold on and not open any web programs for a while, during which time my connection was perfect. Then, while browsing, I told her to open her web browser and sure enough as soon as she did, I lost my connection. These results have been consistent every time we’ve tested them again at various times.
I can safely assume that the Netgear Router is supposed to allow much more than 1 computer to connect wirelessly at a time, so there must be some technical issue that is far beyond my abilities to correct. Hopefully there is an expert here who has some suggestions and procedures to try fixing my problem.
If you need any additional information I may have failed to include, don’t hesitate to ask, please. Any help is greatly appreciated.