Having problems with my network setup.

[HaloAddict19]

I am having some problems with my network setup at home. Down stairs I have a DSL modem which plugs into the uplink port of a wireless router. Upstairs in my room I have a wireless access point that is plugged into the uplink port of a 5 port switch. I have my computer plugged into port 2 and an Xbox with linux in port 3. I use the Xbox for streaming movies to my TV mostly. Previously I had a PCI wireless card in my PC and the access point plugged into the xbox, which is annoyingly slow. So I switched them to the way I described in the beginning. I am having a problem with the Xbox getting and IP address. For a long time it wouldn't work at all. I messed with network settings for awhile but nothing. I've even tried 3 different switches. Then by accident really last night I had the xbox on and ran "ipconfig /renew" on my computer and that got my xbox an IP. I was able to stream a movie and I was happy. But it is annoying that I have to do that at start up and then again once I get the media streaming program open. Now I tried the same thing tonight and it is not working at all. I also noticed that if I turn the xbox on that the computer loses its internet connection for a few seconds. I am thinking that this is a problem with the access point. It is the Xbox brand access point that I got from a co-worker for dirt cheap awhile back. Otherwise the wireless router is a netgear and the switch is a linksys 100Mbps.

[glc]

The DSL modem needs to be set up as a bridge-only modem if it has routing functions, and plugged into the Internet/WAN port of your Netgear, not the uplink. You will set up the netgear for PPPoE, storing the username and password in the Netgear, not the modem. It sounds like you are trying to use the Netgear as only an access point, and if so, it has to be reconfigured in a special way.