PCs and me.

[smilingcat]

Thank you Oak, Sylvia, and Beth.

Gave me time to decompress and re-think of my problem.

Long story short:

There is a bug in the installer whereby IP address it finds for the system resource is corrupt. IP address for the printer was wrong so manually fixed along with few other parameters and now the printer is on line.

This happened on both the XP and Linux box on-line full time. My AP (access point WI-FI) will be reprogrammed manually so that I wouldn't have this problem. I think there may be a bug in the local DHCP server inside my 4G modem. grrr!!!! No wonder I'm having problem with just about every resource on my network.

[Roadtrip]

No.. No.. No.. Its not the number of devices, tho simplifying during troubleshooting does help, adding stuff back in and sees where it breaks.

I have two laptops (but have had two additional work laptops hooked up), one desktop, two smart phones, two iPads, three directTV receivers, Playstation 3, networked printer, then the router and switches to hook all that stuff up... Plus the Wii we hardly ever use anymore.

Of course I do have 30mb/s broadband over fiber running to the house too

Good luck!!