Loosing internet connection

[joeljera]

My first time here.  I have a problem and I'm confused.  I have a laptop and wireless router and my internet connection works fine until my daughter comes home from college with her laptop.  When she tries to do anything with her laptop, we loose our connection.  The only way we get it back is to shut off the modem and unplug the router for about twenty minutes.  Then they both reboot and our connection comes back until my daughter tries to do anything on her laptop.  We don't have this issue when her computer is not here.  I am running XP while she runs Vista.  Any suggestions?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

What does she do on her laptop?

If she downloads torrents or uses P2P programs (or is just downloading anything), all your bandwith may have been used up.

[joeljera]

We loose the connection immediately - yesterday all it took was her moving the mouse on her laptop.  If she turns off the option to "search for internet connections" on her laptop, we dont loose our (home) connection - but she doesn't have any internet connection.  Thanks for your advise.

[ale52]

Is she trying to connect wirelessly / hard wired?

Alan <>< 

[Broni]

I'd be looking for a new router.

[joeljera]

ale52, we have tried it both ways (hard wired and wireless) and each time we lose the connection and have to reboot the router and modem.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Does she have any problems at her college?

[joeljera]

No problems while she's at college.

[prajwalsunwar]

HAVE YOU TRIED HARDCODING THE NETWORK ADDRESS ON THE LAPTOP

[Broni]

prajwalsunwar
Have you tried to turn caps off?

[prajwalsunwar]

HOW DOES THAT MATTER

[Broni]

Per on-line etiquette, using capital letters, means yelling. Yelling is rude.
On a top of it caps are harder to read.
I hope, I explained it clearly enough.

[joeljera]

Prajwalsunwar - Thanks for your reply - I'm not sure what you mean "hardcoding the network address"