All my Computers are Freezing! (1 Viewer)

[Adam Sanchez]

Hey everyone,

First off, I recently posted about setting up a wireless network and I think that might have releveance to this new problem so you might need to read that post first.

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htfo...hreadid=136189

Anyway I'm having a problem with ALL 3 of my computers and it kind of hit me tonight when my stepdad was on his and I was on my desktop and it happened at near the same time that it might be a NETWORKING problem. Best I can remember, it only seems to happen when I am using any internet related program: AOL, IE, Etc. I also realized tonight that this problem seems to of cropped up right after I got my wireless access point and added it to the current network. Could I have some settings seriously wrong that is causing this?

When it first started happening, I did the standard check of my drives with virus scan, disk defrag and everything checked out. When it comes to networking, I know little. All 3 computers are sharing one cable modem connection using Windows XP, a Hub, and now a Access Point for my Laptop. About the only thing set manually is my AP's IP. Could the problem lie there? I have to think that this is all related. Like I said, it seems to of started right when I added the AP.

Any help or suggestion would be great.

Thank you.

 

[Adam Sanchez]

Oh and I forgot to mention that when these freezes occur, they will almost always eventualy recover if I let it sit, but it can take a minute or two and other parts of windows will appear to be normal.

 

[Adam Sanchez]

My wireless connection from my laptop also seems to randomly go out and just as random come back. I know it's not the range, I'm in an apartment and can not get any further than 15 feet from the AP. I don't know if this is related to anything but think it might also be a IP setting problem.

 

[Adam Sanchez]

No one has any ideas huh? Yikes this may be a more serious problem than I thought.