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<blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5426755" data-attributes="member: 59506">Okay all you resident computer geniuses, I've got some questions.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses&nbsp; &nbsp; B-)" data-shortname="B-)" />&nbsp;I have a wireless-g network running from an AT&amp;T wireless gateway connected to DSL (at the highest available speed for my area), and anywhere from two to three laptops running off of it.&nbsp; I can easily run all three computers on the internet at the same time, with no noticeable slowdowns or anyone getting kicked off.&nbsp; But, as soon as one of the computers starts downloading or streaming anything (a file, movie/tv show, music, radio station), the other computers get kicked off the internet (they still have a network connection, but Internet Explorer will display a &quot;Gateway error&quot; when going to a new page, or currently viewed pages will just freeze).&nbsp; The kicked off computer will need internet explorer shut down and restarted multiple times before a simple webpage like Google can be reached - and even then, will randomly get kicked off until the download is complete.&nbsp;I'm probably going to switch from AT&amp;T to cable internet anyways (in my area, cable has faster available speeds than AT&amp;T does, for the same basic price I'm paying now, and AT&amp;T has had quite a few area outages, and significant slowdowns/dropouts at peak times).&nbsp;So, my questions are:&nbsp;Is it the modem portion of the gateway that's kicking me offline, or is it the router portion?&nbsp;Is it because I'm using a cheap AT&amp;T gateway?&nbsp;Do I need to have a seperate modem and run two seperate wireless routers off of it (two wireless networks) in order to avoid this problem?&nbsp;How do I fix this?&nbsp;&nbsp;Help me ENWorld.&nbsp; You're my only hope...&nbsp;<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/cry.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":.-(" title="Cry&nbsp; &nbsp; :.-(" data-shortname=":.-(" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Mahdi, post: 5426755, member: 59506"] Okay all you resident computer geniuses, I've got some questions.B-) I have a wireless-g network running from an AT&T wireless gateway connected to DSL (at the highest available speed for my area), and anywhere from two to three laptops running off of it. I can easily run all three computers on the internet at the same time, with no noticeable slowdowns or anyone getting kicked off. But, as soon as one of the computers starts downloading or streaming anything (a file, movie/tv show, music, radio station), the other computers get kicked off the internet (they still have a network connection, but Internet Explorer will display a "Gateway error" when going to a new page, or currently viewed pages will just freeze). The kicked off computer will need internet explorer shut down and restarted multiple times before a simple webpage like Google can be reached - and even then, will randomly get kicked off until the download is complete. I'm probably going to switch from AT&T to cable internet anyways (in my area, cable has faster available speeds than AT&T does, for the same basic price I'm paying now, and AT&T has had quite a few area outages, and significant slowdowns/dropouts at peak times). So, my questions are: Is it the modem portion of the gateway that's kicking me offline, or is it the router portion? Is it because I'm using a cheap AT&T gateway? Do I need to have a seperate modem and run two seperate wireless routers off of it (two wireless networks) in order to avoid this problem? How do I fix this? Help me ENWorld. You're my only hope... :.-(:) [/QUOTE]

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