Two Laptops: Only one can connect to the wireless router at once...

Hey everyone,

I have an odd problem: two laptops in my house, one a Toshiba and one a Dell, refuse to be connected to my Netgear wireless router simultaneously. Whenever one connects, the other is booted off and vice versa. I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is. I have completely reset the wireless settings for both notebooks and reinstalled the network drivers for both, but with no luck.

Can anyone else that has had a similar situation shed some light?

Thanks!

 

Make sure you routers dhcp settings are set to give out more then one address.

 

The only thing that immediately comes to mind is that they are both being assigned the same IP address.
Are the laptop's set to a static or dynamic IPs?

 

Neither had static IPs and the router was correctly configured to distribute multiple IPs via DHCP.

I plugged in my old Fonera router that had dd-wrt installed on it, and now both laptops are working fine, so I'm assuming it was just a crappy router.

 

OK
I never had a router that would do that.
It's always been: works or doesn't.