Desktop connection drops only when card in laptop is active

My wife has a D link DWL 520 card in her desktop running XP SP 2 Home
edition. The connection works great when I am away for work or when my laptop
card is unplugged ( I am running 2000 professional). The minute I plug in my
laptop card and connect to the router her connection will drop within a
minute or two and I will have to repair it only to have it disconnect over
and over. It can't maintain a connection when my card is connected. When the
laptop card is not connected hers will remain connected for days without a
problem.

Any ideas what is causing this ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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If you are doing DHCP, have you checked to make sure there are enough
addresses assignable to keep them from trying to use the same one?

You might try setting a static IP address on hers, out of the DHCP
assignable range, to see if helps.

Clark

"Mike" <> wrote in message
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> My wife has a D link DWL 520 card in her desktop running XP SP 2 Home
> edition. The connection works great when I am away for work or when my
> laptop
> card is unplugged ( I am running 2000 professional). The minute I plug in
> my
> laptop card and connect to the router her connection will drop within a
> minute or two and I will have to repair it only to have it disconnect over
> and over. It can't maintain a connection when my card is connected. When
> the
> laptop card is not connected hers will remain connected for days without a
> problem.
>
> Any ideas what is causing this ?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Clark