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Sharing Ip/Dropping connection?

brianthebard · 2008-11-07 19:53:13

One of the people in my apartment has a non wireless laptop, and has got a cable to connect directly to the router. Since this I've noticed the connection dropping off for me a lot-is there a connection? I got a error message today saying I share the same IP as some other machine, is this important? How would I go about…

07-11-2008 08:53PM

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One of the people in my apartment has a non wireless laptop, and has got a cable to connect directly to the router. Since this I've noticed the connection dropping off for me a lot-is there a connection? I got a error message today saying I share the same IP as some other machine, is this important? How would I go about changing things to that my connection doesn't keep dropping off?
Thanks in advance.

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