Have you run any virus scans?

Sounds like a hardware issue to me as well. New firmware might do the trick but you will probably be shopping for a new router soon.

Make sure all PC's are in the same workgroup, on the same ip subnet, are pingable via their hostname, and file sharing is allowed through the firewall on each pc.

Being unable to access web management on a router is somewhat common, even when the router is working fine otherwise. A restart should resolve your issue. You might be able to restart it via telnet...

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Do you have the latest drivers from HP?

Do you have the latest updates for Vista and firmware for the NAS?

do you get name resolution when pinging google.com?

Sounds like a signal strength issue to me. Does your pc connect fine on the 2nd floor? You might want to update the router firmware and the wifi drivers on your laptop and see if you can get a little...

Usually with pc models that have a few options for hardware I just download the most likely drivers and try each one until one works. The best way is to extract the files and then try to add them...

If you go to hp.com and select Support, you will be able to download the latest drivers for your wifi card. You should also poke around while you're there because they have enhancements or fixes for...

Are you running XP or Vista?

Can you add wildcards like *.yahoo.com to ensure everything at the yahoo.com domain is availible?

Do you have the latest drivers for the card?

I prefer the Linksys WRT54GL router. Vista and XP can both connect to a wifi network, they just go about it a little differently.

The best and easiest way to have wifi access on your laptop is to use a wifi router and have a wifi card on your laptop. Some ISP's provide wifi capable modem/router combos so if you have one of...

The default way is to click on the wireless connection icon in your system tray, select view available networks, select the one you want to connect to, and add the security info. Now different wifi...

Have you checked out track4win?

What OS are you running? Here are the directions for XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126

Router firewalls don't filter traffic on the internal network, just traffic comeing from the outside in. Make sure the Windows Firewall isn't enabled and try again.

the directions for blocking urls is in the manual here: http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=242&pl1_id=3&pl2_id=18

It doesn't say anything about bandwidth management for specific...

How do you connect to your modem? Ethernet or usb?

Check out the procedure here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/connectnetwork.mspx

Do you just lose internet access or does the connection to the router disconnect and reconnect? Have you turned logging on in the router to research what happens with things go haywire?

Vista Home Basic cannot join a domain, so if you have a domain at the office you won't be able to access things as easily as you could if you ran Vista Business or Ultimate.

If you plug a hot ethernet cable into your NIC when the pc is on the led's should light up. If they don't, then either the card is bad or the port on your motherboard is bad. You can move it to a...

I don't believe Windows has that capability, but there might be a few nic's out there that come with software to setup a laptop as an access point. Of course if your going to buy a $40 nic you might...

Do all of the PC's have the same username and password? Are you running all XP, Vista, or a mix?

Your laptop could be setup with a static IP to run at the house. do an ipconfig /all and check if you are setup as DHCP or static.

I don't think you can do it. Traffic will be going through your router either way. Check it out -option 1 is the modem assigns it's ip address to your PC on the hub, and your router doesn't work....

Are you asking what software to use for a network diagram, or how to actually layout the network?

Sounds like you mean monitor instead of modem (the display/tv screen part). The no video input could mean a few things, but generally when the monitor is buzzing it's bad news. If you have speakers,...

Just to add to the previous post, all the software required will come with the equipment. I'd also sugguest sticking with the same brand of equipment if possible. Stick with name brands as well, like...

Are you broadcasting your SSID? Not broadcasting your SSID would explain the "The desktop can detect other networks just not this one?" issue.

Are you connected wired or wirelessly? If wirelessly, can you check with a cable and see if you have the same issue?

It could be a flakey PCMCIA port. Does the unspecified card work in your other laptop?