On May 1, 2:57 pm, Mister Civic <steve.san...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 1:46 am, "Harry" <ha...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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> > "Mister Civic" <steve.san...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> >news:992b425c-4526-4456-9755-644165db7524@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
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> > >I was using my Netgear WGR614 router just fine with a Toshiba laptop
> > > running Windows XP Home and a Dell laptop running Windows Vista.
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> > > A few months ago I installed a Canon printer using one of the LAN
> > > ports on the router. Now I am having some really weird behaviour I
> > > haven't been able to solve or even troubleshoot effectively:
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> > > 1) The Toshiba Laptop running XP Home can connect to a LAN port using
> > > an Ethernet cable, but it cannot connect using wireless. It can see
> > > the wireless network but it fails when trying to connect.
> > > 2) The Dell laptop cannot connect using wireless if the wireless card
> > > for the Toshiba laptop is activated. But when I turn off the wireless
> > > card on the Toshiba the Dell connects fine.
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> > > The main thing I did when I bought the printer was to reserve an IP
> > > address (192.168.0.103) for the printer. Neither computer has any
> > > problem using the printer.
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> > > My router is registered as 192.168.0.103 and its subnet mask is
> > > 255.255.255.0. I am using WPA-PSK authentication.
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> > > Any help would be appreciated.
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> > > Thanks,
> > > Steve
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> > The main thing I did when I bought the printer was to reserve an IP
> > address (192.168.0.103) for the printer.
> > My router is registered as 192.168.0.103
> > IP conflict? Try your router as 192.168.0.1- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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> Thanks for your response. Sorry the router address was a typo on my
> part in the post. It is 192.168.0.1.

I finally fixed this problem!

I don't understand why, but the IP address of 192.168.0.3 was
preventing my laptop running XP from connecting to the wireless. I am
guessing this may have been its previous address before I installed
the printer and somehow this caused a conflict of some sort. I
changed my printer to 192.168.0.25 and now everything seems fine!