Hi i need help with my Thompson lan adapter for my computer. Let me start from the TOP. Ok i was messing around with my security SETTINGS with firefox network site that you add your ip to the address bar when i accidently misclicked on the change button from wap to wep. This disconnected my desktop computer and my laptop. soon after i was able to get my laptop to connect but not my desktop. so from the laptop i changed the security setting back to what it was(WAP) but now neither of my adapters are picking up any sign of a modem on my desktop. I am not sure if i had changed any setting for my adapters from the firfox settings. I was wandering can anyone at all help me with this problem. I really need someone who knows aloth about adapters and can help me or anyone for the matter.

Thanks you guys get back to me asap.1. What operating system and service pack level are the computer and laptop using (e.g. Windows XP Home Edition SP3, Windows XP Professional SP3)?

2. Wireless Access Point. It sounds like both your computer and laptop use "wireless" to connect to your network. What network hardware component is the wireless access point in (wireless modem, wireless home router, separate wireless access point)?

3. Provide Make, Model Number, (and Version if there is one) of the wireless access point above (e.g. LinkSys WRT54G v5)?

4. Provide Make and Model Number of the wireless network interface cards in both the computer and laptop, if known?

5. Does either the computer or laptop have a "wired" network interface card that can be connected to a "wired" port on whatever you're using as a wireless access point?

6. If you've enabled "security" (encryption) at the wireless access point, each wireless host computer communicating with the access point must match the security scheme it's using. Hopefully, you can use a computer with a "wired' connection to access the access point's configuration pages using its web interface. You are not accessing the internet to make these changes. You are accessing the firmware of the access point which has been programmed to communicate in a web page format (because that's what people feel comfortable with).

With the make, model number, and version of the wireless access point; someone should be able to pull USER documentation off the internet to see what the proper configuration procedure is.Do u have any P2P SW (for Example Limeware or any program for download music, video) install?
Open a command prompt, Go Start>Run and type "ipconf /all" without the quotation marks. This will tell us a lot. If u have any that looks like Automatic Tunneling Pseudo interface. U have some kind of P2P SW running in the background. Also not sure if Comcast is still doing this or not, but there was a time when they were managing network traffic.
The other option is time consuming and it might help is to see what service is causing this problem.
Go to>Start>Run and type "msconfig" there r 2 tabs that we r interested in Services and Startup.
First lets check Service Tab, U can checked the hide all Microsoft service. This will leave only 3rd party service running. One at a time unchecked a service and reboot, check to see if u r still downloading. Do this until u find the service (if any) that stops the download. If u find one don't stop, write it down and continue until u finish all services. The other Tab Startup pretty much the same, u can leave anything that states C:\Windows\sys32 for last. If u find something write back with a post and we can help u some more. I known this is time consuming, but we need to find the service first before we can trouble shoot. Perhaps Microsoft can provide some assistance:
TROUBLESHOOTING network connection problems

Setting up your network
Securing your network
Using and maintaining your networkDisregard my post,my apologies I was working on another problem.