Question : Wireless IP address conflict

I ran a number of computers on a peer-to-peer network. Recently, I moved to a new physical office location and my D-Link router is now plugged into a new cable modem.

Two of my computers are connected by wire and two more are connected by wireless. On trying to connect a further computer by wireless (which worked OK at our previous office location), I get a message that there is an IP address conflict. I'm baffled by this because I wasn't aware of setting any IP addresses for the wireless computers, it all seemed to happen automatically - all one needed to do was to specify WEP, Open and the network key (i.e. no mention of IP addresses at all in the set up). Any ideas?

Answer : Wireless IP address conflict

riskassessor,

At a dos prompt on the computers that give you the error message type the command "ipconfig /release", press Enter, then type "ipconfig /renew" (no quotes around the commands).  Does that fix the problem?

Go to Network Properties for the connection on each computer.  Highlight the TCP/IP component/protocol in the list and choose Properties.  Do you have an ip address specified there or under the alternate tab (if Windows XP)?

Check your router and make sure that you don't have it assigning a static ip to one or both of the computers based on MAC address, etc.  That is a capability in many routers and could cause this problem if they are duplicates.

b0lsc0tt