I recently bought a 250gb External Hard Drive which works fine when connected to my computer by USB. But when I have both the hard drive and my wireless router connected, my broadband connection starts dropping then turns itself off. They are both connected to separate USB ports and I have swapped them both around and used different leads but to no effect. Does anyone know what the problem is?

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Your two USB ports are probably on a hub (internal) and the problem is power. If 
you have four ports (two in front, two in back), seperate those devices.
If you only have two ports, I would suggest getting a USB PCI card (assuming you 
have an open slot). A powered hub might work but, generally, neither modems nor drives 
work well on a shared connection.

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. 
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
-- Chinese proverb --


Win2k will from time to time have a hard time sharing the USB ports,,,but it can 
be a error in the IRQ that windows has set up for both devices,  win2k likes to share 
IRQ 9 with many over loaded devices,,,you can try and reset the IRQ ,, remove all 
the other USB items and just bout u[ with the new HD then once win2k inds the device 
and gives it a new IRQ (with luck) then plug the other usb items one at a time after 
a reboot for ea. item...win2k with some luck will let you rework the IRQ setting 
but it's a real long shot with the USB port(s)  you can try and add a USB pci card 
that sometimes will work with win2k...


good luck





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On Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 5:37 am, Mark Knowlton wrote:

>I recently bought a 250gb External Hard Drive which works fine when connected to 

>my computer by USB.  But when I have both the hard drive and my wireless router 
connected, 

>my broadband connection starts dropping then turns itself off.  They are both connected 

>to separate USB ports and I have swapped them both around and used different leads 

>but to no effect.  Does anyone know what the problem is? 

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Hi, has your wireless router got a LAN socket, if so it would work far better through the NIC port on your PC if it has one, just a thought.

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