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One laptop cannot connect to internet when other laptop is turned off.
Hi, I recently changed my wireless security type from 'No Authentication (open)' to 'WPA-Personal' Encryption type 'TKIP'.
I did this after becoming concerned about other people outside of my home possibly being able to use my wireless connection and reading up about how to change it.
There are two laptops in the home, and I have changed the security settings for both to WPA-Personal(is it better if it is WPA2 or is WPA-Personal good enough??).
The problem I now have is that when the first laptop is switched off, my own laptop loses connection to the internet.
I did a bit of reading and tried a suggestion to fix my IP address?(one of the messages I get is 'invalid IP address'). I did this and it hasn't worked. I am assuming that I am now connecting to the router through the first laptop, but I do not know how to change this.
I would like to have both laptops able to connect to the internet independently of each other.
Many thanks in advance
Andrea