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As the title helpfully suggests, this is my problem
At quite random intervals (perhaps once or more a week), my brothers or my internet will go weird. The connection bar thing will come up with a little yellow exclamation mark, and say that an IP conflict has been detected.
Now, this can last for an hour or so, or a few days depending on the allignment of the planets presumably.
It can be an annoying inconvenience, or a tragic level of horrible timing, so naturally I'd love to find a way to fix this either permanently, or faster.
I know that resetting the router helps sometimes but besides me and my brother, there's also my little brother and dad (sometimes mum) on it at the same time, (Try playing a game of TF2 on [I]that[/I]) so pestering them to save what they're doing isn't really a pleasant or favourable solution.
Now I'm not the dedicated network manager of the house (Although I have permission of course) and so I know comparatively little about setting up and servicing one, neither do I know how my dad had set the whole thing up, if there're configurations and settings that could be errant. (It would be great to learn though)
So to recap, there's usually about 4 PCs connected to the same network at any given time, and I didn't set up the network (I did however, build and format the desktops of the house, so if i've done something wrong software wise, that'd be great to learn about)
On a slightly unrelated note, my pcs fans are on at max speed almost constantly when I'm in a game, in contrast to the equivelent of a slightly asthmatic mouse in a padded box that I had until recently, so thanks for any help regarding this (And sorry for the huge change in direction)
So thanks for any help, and any blatant comment is handy to have!
Try to set both you and your brother's computers to a static (different!) IP. I'm sure that will fix things.
And having your fans at max speed in game are usually a sign that they need to be! If this developed recently, try dusting it out with a can or compressed air.
An IP conflict means that two computers are trying to use the same IP address at the same time. When you get the warning, check what your computer's IP address is (run "ipconfig" in a command prompt window) and then check the other computers to see if one is actually using the same address.
With a typical home router, everything should be set to DHCP so that the router controls who gets what address, and that should avoid such conflicts.
If all your computers are set to get an IP address from the router,(this is how you do it in windows 7) you can check this by right clicking the networking icon, networking settings, change adaptor settings, right click your network adaptor, properties, TCP/IP v4 settings, now either on all computers change this to a static IP, something like 192.168.1.5, second computers 192.168.1.6, so on, as long as 2 aren't the same. Or what could have happened is one is set to static and the rest aren't, so just making sure they are all set to get the IP automatically it should fix it.
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