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> DSL modem -> Linksys Router -> patch panel in basement -> computer room
> upstairs -> local hub -> four computers
You're still using a HUB? Or do you mean switch?
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> I used to have DHCP but the router kept double-assigning addresses at
> times.
This is troubling. Does it still do this? If so then there's plenty of
reasons to be HIGHLY skeptical of the network setup. Just because some
other boxes "work" doesn't mean there isn't something else wrong.
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> On the laptop, I have tried several times to create a completely new
> connection using the wired adapter but cannot find out how to start any
> sort of wizard to do that.
Disable the adapter in the device manager, the remove it. Reboot and allow
it to set it back up again. It may be advantageous to also delete that
interface from the registry in-between the removal from the device manager
and the reboot.
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> When my wireless A/P is working, I can connect wireless just fine, but
> when I turn the wireless adapter off
Turn off, how?
Here you may have driver issues with the wireless interface. What
make/model/version is it?
Also, since this is a laptop, does it have trouble maintain connections when
the machine goes to sleep or when waking back up from standby or hibernate?
-Bill Kearney