Loss of Transmission Feed ... Why/How?

[kanin247]

To Whom It May Concern:

My question pertains to the following Network setup: SpeedStream 5667 ADSL USB/Ethernet Modem & SpeedStream 4-port DSL/Cable Router connecting Windows 2000 PC & Windows XP PC.

My question/problem is that when my XP machine is downloading files (music, for example) of high data transmissions, my W2K machine has trouble simply accessing the internet (loading webpages, for example). In other words, it's losing its data transmission feed because of the XP machine (I think, right?). What could be causing this? And could you suggest a possible solution?

I would appreciate any help/feedback. Thank you.

kanin

 

[GoLdFiNgeR]

well how are you set up, i assume you have the two machines going into the router via ethernet? is the router doing dhcp or did you give static ip's? with windows 2k and xp i would go static ip since you have only 2 comps it will be easy, also im sure its set up rigth but have the modem go into the WAN port on the router, then one machine into the highest numbererd port, 4/8 etc, and then go down from there

let me know how you have that set up