I've got a problem that has left me completely baffled, I hope someone
out there might be able to help because I've gotton to the point where
I feel like bashing my head against a wall and I just can't think
anymore. This is the situation.....


I've got broadband with a BT homehub, 3 towers all running XP (Two
wired, one wireless). Network and Internet all working fine on those
three. Just bought an Asus Laptop with Vista home premium and tried
getting it set up on the network wirelessly, it connected to the
Homehub and the internet without any problems and could see one of the
computers through it (which was the only one switched on at the time).


Now for the problem.......after about 10 minutes I'd rebooted the
Laptop after doing updates and so on and I could no longer see any
computers through the network, the network still worked as I could
still see the router and had Internet. After a while of searching
around I looked on the Homehub and found that the Laptops connection
on it had taken the same name as one of the other machines, which in
itself I found rather strange (the first of many starnge things to
come). so I changed the name to Andromeda (the name of the Laptop) and
it kept that, however that didn't solve the problem. In the network
area on the Laptop I could still only see itself, the Homehub and the
gateway, I tried opening itself and I could see the folders that I had
set as shared but I couldn't open the folders, it mentioned something
about not being able to find the network resource or something. I
tried going into the Homehub, deleteing the connection stored in it
for Andromeda, removing the connection from the Laptop and remaking
the connection from scratch but that didn't help.

Next I went into cmd on the Laptop and thought I'd try pinging to see
if I could see anything,
first the Homehub........all fine,
then the other three computers in turn........all replies present and
correct, all seemed to be working between them,
then I tried pinging itself and it couldn't get any replies.
I tried pinging the computer that the entry on the Homehub had taken
the name from, whilst the computer was off and it came back with the
reply of the IP address that had been assigned to the Laptop. that
really got me stumped because I went back into the Homehub and the
Laptop connection still had the name Andromeda assigned to it, so I
don't understand why they seem to be crossing. The machine that it
took the name from isn't the other wireless one.

I've tried re-installing the Laptop three times so far with the
recovery discs that came with it, just to see if I could get it to
connect again like it did briefly the first time but no such luck.
I've tried every thing I can think of, and I've run into a dead end,
now it's starting to hurt to think about it.


Can anyone out there please help.........