Today was North Potomac Computer Repair Day!
I spent most of today at Bob W’s residence in North Potomac, MD. He was having problems with MicroSoft office, having problems sharing files, had some McAfee startup errors. It ended out that he did not have properly licensed MSOffice, so we fixed that with a new copy of Office 2003 Standard. Then fixed McAfee, so that it was running properly. Then got Sharing going for the files he wanted to access on his desktop from his laptop. The we configured his son’s Wireless XBox. With the XBOX on the wireless network, we could no longer share files between the wireless laptop, and wired PC. Go Figure. I could not believe it, so I did a little testing, and found that when the XBOX was online, the PC’s would not share properly. With the XBOX offline, we could share.
I googled XBox Network problems, and saw that people seem to have some duplicate IP problems, but that was not the problem here. Somehow the XBox scrambled the wireless making it unusable for file sharing.
We even tried a 2nd router, but to no avail. Ugh! Be careful trying to put an XBox 360 on your wireless.
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A day in the life of a computer repair tech 