I've been usin comps for so long, I'm just a moron for not reading anything.
Anyways, lately we've been having problems with our network, it could be on of many things..

1) Two wireless routers in the same house, one mac one linky, I've been against it all along but I can't do a thing. Who knows maybe it's not a prob.

2) Until yesterday I download constantly with the ports 6899 - 6999 forwarded and every once in a while ( At least 2 days ) the router would take a rest and assign us all an addy like 169.172.blah blah....worthless until you reset the router. This really bugs my family so I am now unable to download from my favorite source.

3) Lack of knowledge. 3 months ago my dad stressed not to install SP1 but I did because everyone on some forums said it was good, ended up giving me various services that should not have came up, mostly NT exploits I'm assuming..?

Oh yeah this is anothaa factor, my dad wont listen to my opinions tho.
1.Wireless Linky 4 port with JUST my aunt plugged in for her lappy.
Then we have a linky switch that everyone else is plugged into.... another wireless router for gods sake, and he blames it on me...