scroat

greetings!
i have an incredibly annoying problem its driving me insane... home network setup: speedtouch alcatel 570 modem router connected wired to this, my mate's pc, and wireless to two pcs out back (one mine). all on xp sp2. netgear wg311 manages wireless config. everything working fine til 2 weeks ago when morning boot fails to connect to network: cant ping router at all; said "destinstion host unreachable". repairing only leads to " unable to renew ip" message. so i set static ip and presto! now i get both netwrk icons saying connected, rather than the netgear being on the network and the other one saying "limited or no connectivity". so, with static ip it all says "connected", but now still wont ping router! this time it "time out" and i cant get net. so i release and renew and... nothing. most advice says to make it auto assign but tcp/ip properties on auto assign etc... alresdy. i thought it was the router so i bought a netgear wired modem router and it wouldnt set up, but thats another story! so im back on the speedtouch cos i can at least get on net lol. the other wireless conn. dropped at same time. we r going mad!