Fixing the conflict between my home internet and home network

[ibgolfn]

I using Windows XP Pro on my laptop. I have a wireless router set up for
internet. I brought home an old server from my office that is running server
2003. I don't know how to make them operate together, so they are completely
separate. It works fine on other computers in the house that are not
wireless. On my laptop there seems to be a conflict. If the network cable
is plugged in, the internet works intermittenly and frequently causes outlook
to stop working. If I close and attempt to re-open it ignores the command
until I re-boot.

Scot

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I using Windows XP Pro on my laptop. I have a wireless router set
up for internet. I brought home an old server from my office that
is running server 2003. I don't know how to make them operate
together, so they are completely separate. It works fine on other
computers in the house that are not wireless. On my laptop there
seems to be a conflict. If the network cable is plugged in, the
internet works intermittenly and frequently causes outlook to stop
working. If I close and attempt to re-open it ignores the command
until I re-boot.

I am unsure how the server and your Internet problems are supposedly
related.

You have Windows XP Professional on the laptop.
You have Windows Server 2003 running on the server.
You have a wireless router.

If you are having trouble with your wireless - that is either a problem with
the Wireless Router (hardware or configuration) or the laptop (wireless
hardware or drivers/software.) Same for the wired network on the computer
(laptop) in question.

How are you making the connection between the problem with the laptop and
the network/Internet and the server?

In other words - what is it you think is happening - because at this point -
I see no viable connection here.

 

[ibgolfn]

Shenan,

The wireless router works just fine when I don't have my network cable from
the server plugged in. I have no problem. As soon as I plug in the ethernet
cable from my server the internet goes intermittent. Unplug the server, all
is fine again.

Does that help you to understand what I am trying to say?

 

[Gordon]

Shenan,

The wireless router works just fine when I don't have my network cable
from
the server plugged in. I have no problem. As soon as I plug in the
ethernet
cable from my server the internet goes intermittent. Unplug the server,
all
is fine again.

Try putting a switch in-between the router and the wired network....

 

[Shenan Stanley]

The wireless router works just fine when I don't have my network
cable from the server plugged in. I have no problem. As soon as I
plug in the ethernet cable from my server the internet goes
intermittent. Unplug the server, all is fine again.

Does that help you to understand what I am trying to say?

Is the Windows 2003 server setup as a DHCP server or anything?

 

[ibgolfn]

Shenan,

Uh, oh. I don't know what that means. I did not set it up. I had someone
come and do it for me.

I am working on getting a switch as Gordon suggested. Is it possible a
dummy like my could find out if the server is setup as a DHCP?

 

[DS]

Shenan,

Uh, oh. I don't know what that means. I did not set it up. I had
someone come and do it for me.

I am working on getting a switch as Gordon suggested. Is it possible a
dummy like my could find out if the server is setup as a DHCP?

Was this resolved ?

I don't know what having a switch inline will do, but ......

(First, DHCP is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Any device that
wants to operate on an IP network needs to have an IP address in a
specific range. If your PC does not have a static IP address set, it uses
DHCP. When the PC is booted up, it will send out a DHCP request on the
LAN for an IP address. Having 2 DHCP server's on the network (the one in
your router is probably enabled) could be a bad thing if not configured
properly.)

You can check all IP addresses from a cmd prompt. Open a cmd prompt and
type: ipconfig /all <press Enter>

This will display the info for each network adapter in the PC. For the
laptop, look at the adapter that has 'wireless' in it's description. One
of the fields shown is whether or not it has DHCP enabled.

Both of the PC's and the router need to have unique IP addresses, and the
same subnet mask. Ex.-

Laptop- IP = 192.168.1.21 Mask= 255.255.255.0 Default G/W= 192.168.1.1
Server- IP = 192.168.1.5 Mask= 255.255.255.0 Default G/W= 192.168.1.1
Router- IP = 192.168.1.1 Mask= 255.255.255.0

(Just examples, it could be 192.168.anything.anything or
10.anything.anything.anything)

To see if the Server has DHCP enabled, there's a shortcut called
'Configure This Server' or something to that effect. Look in there to see
if the DHCP server is enabled. Disable DHCP there if the DHCP server is
running on the router.

Post back and we can easily get this straightened out.

Regards,

DanS