I've set up a small home network, which sees my powerbook connect to the inter net via a belkin wirless dsl broadband router/modem. No problems.

Windows XP machine connects to the internet via same belkin router but via cable, again no problems.

When I try to network the Mac to the PC or vice versa, they connect and you can see all of the files etc. However, 10 minutes later they disconnect. This is not the case if I connect both of them via cable to the router.

I'm using Mac OS X Panther.

Any Ideas

Hello,

This is an interesting situation you have there. I would check the router's web config thingy and see if there is an auto disconnect if there isn't any traffic.

If you can get your hands on a packet sniffer, you could also see if the router is doing something like re-configuring the IP addresses (DHCP) every 10 minutes or so.

Try this: Open the Mac and ping the PC. Let it ping for at least 15 minutes (don't worry -- won't hurt anything). If the connection survives, I think you have a timeout problem. If the pings start dropping, then there could be a problem.

Because the Cable Lan is working, I think your individual computers are fine.

Christian