Vista - Activating dormant Vista laptop lags network

I have a home network set up for 4 computers. Two desktops + one laptop
have XP; one laptop has Vista. While using the desktops, my roommate and
I will sometimes shift to our laptops to browse the web. His laptop,
running XP, has no effect on the network even if it has been idle for a
while. My laptop, running Vista, has a much different effect. If my
laptop has been sitting idle for a while, when I try to access the
internet, every computer on the internet experiences a severe lag spike
lasting around 2-3 minutes.

Once the network has had its time to settle, I can use the Vista laptop
without issue (NOT the same as the consistent Vista spikes referenced in
other posts). I tried set priorities in my router for the ip addresses
of the desktops but this had no effect on the problem.


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