sky broadband timing out !

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hi everyone does any one know why my sky broadband router keeps timing out,my main computer is connected through a ethernet cable and usually it stays on but when my sons computer comes on when im online and hes connected through a wireless adapter (its a netgear dg834gt router and wg111t adapter by the way) within no time the internet signal drops and we have to reboot the router to get back on line.my sons computer has a good strong signal to the router so cant be nothing to do with that ....any ideas ?
 
Are the timeouts random or at regular intervals?

I'd first try turning off the UPNP on the router GUI - as you say your main wired pc "usually stays on". Then try changing the channel the wireless is being broadcast on, if thats still not solved the case it may be worthwhile trying to connect the two systems hard wired and monitoring the connection from there.

This site here may also be of some use to you ;)
 
Is your son running any peer to peer or file sharing software that could be swamping/overloading the router's connection - as its only happening when his machine comes online you say.

Does it keep happening after you have rebooted the router once and until his machine is off again ?
 
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