Im using a new belkin 802.11 b/g Nic and for some reason the other day my computer just refused to allow me access to the internet or the network in general. So i sat down and looked through all the seting and discovered that DHCP was assigning me a 169 ip address. My normal configuration for it is 192.168.1.1 and the router has a 192.168.1.2, so i did a ping on the router and it refused to accept and declared "host unreachable". but earlyer that day i had been on the network without any problems. The network isnt real relyable it drops me once ever 3 hours (average). im running xp sp2 on all my systems on trhe network including the one connected to the router so normaly all i have to do is tell my computer to do a repair and it fixes the problem for a while and then it drops out again. Iv tryed every thing i can think of to fix the problem i even set the ip address subnet mask adn all that manualy and that allowed me access to the network but i still cant access the internet. we tryed the network using a my laptop and 802.11 b/g nic adn it could access the network and the internet fine.