before two PCs and one laptop worked well at similar time on house network. Then all of a sudden they get the IP address conflict message. It is difficult but manageable as they continued working. So the lady goes into network connections and modifies the TCP/IP last digit from automatic to manual and modifies the last digit on IP address for each PC.

That worked for a while but in the meantime I have to keep repairing the connection on my PC. FF and IE work and then all of a sudden loading a new page will time out and break the connection.

Two changes have newly made.

1. The lady installed a flash drive on laptop so that it will work in hotspots.

2. I downloaded Google earth and whereas it worked and everything else with the new manual IP assignments the connection crash problems has been happening since.