On 11 Feb 2007 15:16:48 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless , "Alan"
<agarny@gmail.com> wrote:

(John Navas wrote, replying to a comment from Alan)

>> >I have to stop it
>> >and restart it to see it listed again.
>>
>> That suggests your router is failing.
>
>Yes, I gathered that much, but what I don't understand is why it only
>seems to be failing when I use both ThinkPads, but not when I use
>either ThinkPad with my partner's old non-ThinkPad laptop?

See my comments elsethread on how retail routers can fall over without
any sensible reason.
Are all three laptops using 11G mode, or is one of them in 11B?
Did you try connecting the laptops up via network cables? If so, do
you get the same problems?

>I have only the aforementioned modem/router.

Can you borrow one from someone? Worst case, routers are cheap.

>Also, as mentioned
>before, it works fine with in some cases, namely one ThinkPad at a
>time.

What do the lights on the router do when you are having problems? Can
you watch them carefully? I'm not familiar with that particular
router, but I'd imagine it has LEDs for power, WAN conection, LAN
ports, and wireless.

>We are not using any P2P softwares.

John was just noting that retail routers can have all sorts of
problems and giving one example.

>We merely want to browse the
>internet and check emails, both of which should require very little
>load. Also, we do lose the connection when running both ThinkPads
>*and* doing *nothing*, i.e. we just switch the laptops on, log on,
>wait and... after a couple of minutes or so, we lose our internet
>connection.

Did you disable power-saving in both laptops, especially any settings
in Device Manager which allow the computer to turn off the device to
save power?

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Mark McIntyre