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We have two desktops Win XP pro in home network. Everything work fine except email.Since we have only one email address, very often appear IP conflict between machines which cause problems. How we can fix this but still keeping one address?

EDITOR'S NOTE: What happens when you get this "IP conflict"?

I have 3 computers. 2 are PC's & one is a Mac. I have 1 router with 4 ports. When the 2 PC's are plugged into the router no problem, but, as soon as I plug in the Mac to the router, the PC's start losing connections, for example, "connection timeout", slow or no page loading. Can you advise?
P.S. I use a D-Link EBR-2310 router.

EDITOR'S NOTE: My advice would be to unplug the Mac! ;-) It's either something on the Mac burning up a lot of bandwidth (network traffic) or the router is defective.

I have all of the above on my computer, but there is no network that I know of. Is theres something more specific that I need to set up? I have a wireless laptop and a desktop with a printer attached, but I want the laptop to print to the desktop. I tried sharing the printer, but it won't show up on the laptop as a possible printer. Suggestions?

EDITOR'S NOTE: If your laptop can connect to the Internet, then you have a network. Did you make sure both computers are using the same network name on both computers? Also see http://askbobrankin.com/sharing_a_printer.html

Hi!
I have hooked up routers for friends for their laptops but I'm having trouble with connecting my 2 desktops. My main computer is Windows VISTA and it's connected to a cable modem and has the lynsky router. The second Desktop runs XP and I have an ethernet cable running from the router to it. I renamed the workgroups to the same name. I can view the VISTA computer and access the public file, and access the printer, but cannot access the internet. The main computer cannot see the XP one at all. What am I doing wrong? I have tried everything I can think of.

Thanks for your help.