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jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 1584
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 7:53 am: | 
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I get that Windows error message all the time. I have a wireless network and one additional PC in the house. Does that error occur from other PCs in my neighborhood or is it related to the PC in my house? Is there something I can do to solve it? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. |
TomD
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Username: Tomd
Post Number: 362
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 8:05 am: |
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That message should be referring to your internal network since you only get one IP form either cable or DSL.
If both PC's are set to obtain ip's automatically this shouldn't happen. I'd confirm that the two PC's do, in fact, have the same IP address. To see your IP address: Start menu|run|ipconfig. Do it on both computer and check it.
If they both have the same IP address then they are probably being set. There are a few other possibilities (a weird router setting, perhaps), but they are more remote. |
jolynn
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Username: Unixiscool
Post Number: 17
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 8:13 am: |
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if you open up the command prompt you can run the command:
ipconfig
This will show you the IP address on your computer. Do it on both computers when you get this error and see if they are sharing an IP.
If they are sharing an IP you will want to work with your config on your wirless router to solve this problem. If they have different IP's you will still want to look at your wireless config to get some information. I haven't played with wireless routers to much but you could assign IP's based on your mac address and it should solve this problem.
Jolynn |
Rastro
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Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2391
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 9:29 am: |
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It is also possible that someone is bootlegging your wireless connection with a computer with a conflicting IP address. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12641
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 9:43 am: |
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When a computer uses the same IP address as yours, both back off and don't use the net for a while. So you don't want this to happen.
Your computers are probably set to obtain IP addresses automatically. They send a broadcast message on the local network, asking for an address. Your router assigns the address. It's possible, but not likely, that yours has a manually-set address. So maybe the wireless one conflicts with one that your neighbor is using, and your neighbor is jumping onto your wireless network.
Perhaps you should do both of these things:
1. change the range of addresses that your router hands out. For example, Linksys routers normally hand out addresses of the form 192.168.1.x where x is some number above 99. You could change it to 192.168.77.x which others are less likely to use. But the first two "dotted" numbers should remain 192.168.
2. Tighten up the wireless security on your router so people can't jump on.
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