My Internet Router only allows one Laptop to connect at a time wirelessly, can anyone help?
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Check to verify the IP addresses of both laptops do not match. This is one potential reason for only one working at a time.\n\nI suggest placing both laptops in DHCP mode.
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Things to check for:\n1. Is the wireless access point connected to your router (unless the access point and the router are in the same unit)?\n2. Do both computers have valid IP addresses (and valid network masks and gateway addresses)?  These must either be set by hand, or else you set the computers for DHCP (but that only works if either the router or your ISP is providing the DHCP service -- to make the router offer DHCP service you would have to turn on "NAT" in the router).\n3. Can each computer ping the other?
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Yes, you need another router. It will the fastest and most efficient way to do this. There is software you could install that allows it to be done through one of the computers, but it is a nightmare and you would always have to have both machines on. With the prices of Internet Broadband routers these days, why even bother.\n\nI won't fill up this page with the "How-to", so please take a look here:\n\nhttp://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Content_C1&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1114037291160&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper
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Make sure the SSID names are the same on both computers... like WORKGROUP is what it usually defaults too. I have had problems before and loading the IPX protocol has taken care of those. Hope this helps If you are using wireless, make the SSID the same name as your Router.
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There are a number of reasons, not all of which I can answer here, but here's a few places to start:\n\n1. Your router has encryption, and you have not entered the password correctly\n\n2. Your router uses a MAC filter, and you have not given access to your laptop.\n\n3. You're too far away from the router.\n\n4. You have a firewall that is not working / set up correctly.\n\n5. You haven't pushed the "wireless" button on your laptop to enable your wireless device.\n\nAnd more.  Start by checking these things.
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hello ! it's about the router ... if it is a cheap one with basic NAT, you need to upgrade to a router with enhanced NAT capabilities. Sorry, there is no other solution ...
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Have you tried powering everything off and back on?  Just because one computer can connect doesn't mean that the laptop is at fault.  I've had this problem with wireless routers.  First thing to try is to power everything off and then back on.
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As many connections you have.  A router would allocate the connection request anyway.  How many do you want to add, 100?  I would add no more than 5.
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Your DSL company probably will not give you any support on the router *unless* you bought it from them.\n\nHowever, it does sound like either:\n\n1.  A matter of plugging the wires up in the right place.\n2.  A configuration problem with your router.\n\nThe DSL modem obviously recognizes the router or you wouldn't be able to log on with either computer.\n\nAs an alternative, your router probably has four ports for computers, try pluggin in the non-working computer to a different port and see if you have a bad port.
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make sure your laptop have the same setting with the router\n1. the channel\n2. the wep key (the password you got probably)\n3. the ssid \n4. the router is not filtering out other machine by MAC address, otherwise you have to give neighbour your wireless MAC address to add in the router setting\n5. use release button and renew button on router config. page to assign address.\nIf your laptop detects signal, go to start run type "cmd" ok, then in the black window type "ipconfig /release" enter, then "ipconfig /renew" enter you should get connected.
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Just buy a wireless router with a built in Ethernet switch & do away with the other router.\nOf course you will need to have a wireless card for your laptop if you don't already.
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A wireless router is capable of allowing multiple connections, even if they are secure. All connections share the wireless router's signal. To add a second laptop, you need to have access to the router's security info, depending on the type of security enabled on the router. Usually it's a WEP key that you need. If you don't know your WEP key, log in to your router's management tool and find it on one of the tabs. To log in to the management tool, make sure you can get a signal from your router, then open a web browser and enter 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.10.1 or 192.168.0.1. One of those should take you to something that looks like a web page for your router. \n\nIf those don't work, and you ARE at least getting a signal from your router, then go to *Start* "Run* and enter "cmd". This brings up something that looks like DOS. enter "ipconfig"\nThat will give you a default gateway. This is the IP address for your router. Enter that as your URL and that will take you to the router management tool.
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1. start\n2. control panel\n3. network and internet connections\n4. network setup wizard not the wireless setup\n\nyou will have to do this on both computers!!!!!  and make sure that the 'workgroup name' is the same on both computers or it will not work.  I just set this same thing up on my home computers a few days ago.   if you need more help my email is hawk5924@yahoo.com   good luck!
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If you changed the default admin password on the router and enabled encryption, thats a good start.\n\nYou could also set the router to only accept signals from your system by specifiying the MAC address of your NIC
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YOU ARE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO CALL THE TECH SUPPORT FOR YOUR ROUTER!  NO OTHER WAY!  OR TECH SUPPORT FROM YOUR INTERNET PROVIDER AND LET THEM WALK YOU THROUGH.\n\nBASICALLY THOUGH ONE OF YOUR COMPUTERS WILL HAVE TO BECOME THE MASTER COMPUTER IN A HOME NETWORK AND YOU WILL HAVE TO SET UP NAMES FOR EACH COMPUTER.  \n\nWAIT!!!\n\n\nI DID IT BY GOING TO WINDOWS 98 HELP AND SIMPLY ENTERING HOME NETWORK AND FOLLOWING THE STEPS THAT WERE IN THE DIRECTIONS IN THE COMPUTER!  TRY DOING JUST THAT!  OR GO TO THE MICROSOFT SITE AND ASK THAT QUESTION ! I FORGET WHERE THE DIRECTIONS CAME FROM THAT I USED.  BUT IT WAS STRAIGHT FORWARD AND I SET UP MY OWN PASSWORDS AND EVERYTHING!\n\nTRY HELP FIRST THEN GO TO MICROSOFT HELP ON LINE.  IF THAT DOES NOT WORK.  I REMEMBER SOMETHING ABOUT THE CONFIGURATION BUT IF BOTH OF YOUR COMPUTERS ARE WORKING YOU CAN PROBABLY DO IT ON YOUR OWN WITH MICROSOFT HELP ALONE!\n\n\nGIVE IT A TRY!\n\nGOOD LUCK!\n\n\nAPS
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When you get an IP conflict like the one you have described, there is an other router in the aria with the same IP... You will have to do a serch for wireless networks, then delete all but yours from the list....
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You probably need to call your tech support about that problem..I run two computer's from a router all the time and both have equal speed