Can connecting another computer to my network influence the connections of the other computers?

Posted on 21 June 2009


computers & technology
I had two computers both connected to a wireless router. Yesterday I connected a third computer to the network and, although the connection goes through for this new computer, one of the original computers now says “Limited or no connectivity” and cannot connect to the Internet. Is it possible that the new computer is using up too much bandwidth and is therefore preventing the other computer from accessing the Internet?
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4 Comments For This Post

  1. ? says:

    Sounds like you have an IP address conflict, I would check the addresses on the computers to make sure these are no duplicates host IPs.

  2. dr.bucksnort says:

    sounds like a stacked winsock

    run this on ALL machines

  3. Frankie S says:

    no but it can make your computer network slow when doing this

  4. ZIG says:

    Reboot the router…

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