I just purchased a laptop... for a variety of reasons... didn't want two desktops in the household... wanted some portability, which a laptop brings verses a desktop computer, since we travel from time to time...
I installed a D-link wireless router on the desktop that we already had connected to the internet via a DSL modem, to give our laptop internet access.
I ran into a apparent common problem... Both my wireless router and the DSL Modem had the same IP address, so they bumped heads when trying to access the internet at the same time and my laptop network connection kept losing the battle and lost its connection to the wireless router... so I had to get the DSL modem placed into bridge mode, and create an internet connection on the desktop computer with a different IP address....
I somewhat understand the DSL Modem in bridge mode.. But I don't completely understand how creating an internet connection on the desktop with another IP address worked to help solve the problem
Can someone please help...
Thanks Ken