I have been monitoring my network for about a week (running a small program that constantly ping all addresses) and doing a few other things. Not terribly scientific but these are my observations:
Situation I have is a livebox and a network that consists of 5 laptops, two or Three are regularly on all day. Laptops all wireless. Also have a couple of printers attached to the livebox via a netgea ...
Live box has been working fine for over a year, several laptops connected via wireless (3 MAC addresses listed in the config pages). Been away for a few days, come back and cannot connect via the wire ...