Thanks for all the advice above. I'm mainly just trying to stop anyone free loading on my broadband. I've got XP on 1 laptop, and Vista on the girl next doors, which I'm trying to get to work. My laptop always works. Hers drops the connection every 5 mins. I've now tried WEP, WPA, told router to use 802.11g only and generally fiddled with the settings, to no avail. Her laptop always connects but drops to limited connection, no internet after about 5 mins. Even with her laptop in the same room as the router, the signal is often indicated as 'fair' (compared to excellent on my one) and it still keeps randomly dropping out. Any ideas? (I am going back through pprune threads looking for ideas).