Home wireless network problem

Hi,

This maybe already asked but I can't find my situation described.

I have a Win2k box connected to an Actiontec gateway with ADSL and wireless card. I have a laptop running XP Home with a wireless card. Now, from the Win2k box I can browse the web OK but as soon as I attempt to connect up with the laptop wireless card the Actiontec crashes. I have to re-boot to get back on line. I've set the network to use DHCP, no WEP (for now) and I do see good signal strength. It has worked on and of in the past for about 1 (one, uno) minute, then crashes. Anyone seen this kind of problem before please? The laptop card is not an Actiontec, shouldn't matter should it? I can't get at another network with the laptop to try an eliminate things but is there a known problem withXP Home in this environment?

Thanks

So you are going from DSL to the W2K box nic card then out a wireless card in the w2k box to a wireless card in the xp box. Right?

No mention of ICS on W2k. Run the Internet Connection Sharing wizard.

So you have W2K providing dhcp to the xp box? I would suggest you just do static addresses for both DIFFERENT then the ip address provided by the DSL connection.

Thanks for the ideas, I did have it connected via USB but looking round I discovered a firmware upgrade to the gateway was needed. I had to change to a NIC and static IP for that anyway.

Now the laptop connects (at least from 5ft away!) but when using both PC & laptop the connection slows down to a crawl.

After a bit of experimentation, it seems that when the wireless connection is used for more than about 1 minute, the router basically stops sending data back to either connection (NIC or Wireless). Shutting down the laptop, yanking the wireless card out then in again restores the system on the NIC side connection.

Maybe another firmware upgrade?