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My router shows my wireless adapter has established 3 connections.

Anonymous
2013-05-13T18:39:16+00:00

My internet access is by wireless adapter.  When checking my router DHCP list I found that for my laptop I have been granted 3 IP addresses. My bandwidth has diminished incredibly and I presume this is part of the problem.  I checked my network connections and I found I have 3 connections but only one is listed as active.  I cannot delete the other two.

Is there any way to fix this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-05-14T21:47:39+00:00

    This would indicate that the PC has connected (been rebooted?) 3 times and each time the router has assigned a different address even though it still has the previous addresses in its table. A router should normally reassign the same address so this may indicate a problem with the router.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-05-13T18:55:13+00:00

    Make sure your wireless router is properly secured, because it sounds as if your neighbors are stealing bandwidth from you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-05-26T00:29:39+00:00

    To follow up on LemP excellent spot do you want IP Routing enabled?

    If not then run Regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ Services\Tcpip\Parameters\IPEnableRouter and set the value to 0

    Then run services.msc and scroll down to Routing and Remote Access, stop the service if not already stopped and set it to Disabled.

    Also what is hsne50.com, that would indicate you are in a high level domain network?

    And who says it is limited to cars, I have fixed more computers in the last 25 years than I care to remember just by walking into the room.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-14T19:20:24+00:00

    I use WPA2 security and my neighbors all have their own setups.  I just don't understand why my wireless adapter has 3 IP addresses assigned to it.  I see just one MAC address on the router's DHCP table for my laptop but three IP addresses assigned to it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-05-24T22:58:01+00:00

    Does the router show the MAC address to which it has assigned the IP address to? One of the ways it reassigns the same address after a client reload is the MAC of the requester.

    If you run ipconfig /all on the client PC do the tunnelling adapters have addresses? By default they should not.

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