Connectivity issues at new apartment. Any help appreciated.

[firi]

I am using a wireless Belkin G+ MIMO router. I have the following setup from the router: wireless to my laptop and a wired connection to my xbox360. This setup has worked for me all of last year w/o giving any problems at all.

I just moved to a new apartment and now have all kinds of connectivity woes.
At the new apartment I have a new modem but the same Belkin router. Wireless connection to my laptop works. Now, when I play an online game on the laptop (final fantasy xi) i get disconnected all the time. It seems the game will randomly boot me out after being logged in anywhere from 5 - 60 min. Yet, regular internet works, pages load fine! :confused:

I connected to someone else's unsecured wireless network, and while slower, I do not lose connection when playing an online game! I know the people to whom I connected to, they live in the same apartment complex as me, one floor above me, using the same ISP! (managment includes internet for everyone) What is going on :(

I tried running a cable from the router to xbox360, and it's a no go. I can't connect to xbox live. Now... I also tried running a cable directly from the modem to the xbox. This time xbox recognizes the connection, but I still get kicked out and lose connection when I try to update Xbox Live.

Any suggestions? Is it the modem? router? I know it's not the ISP, since I used someone else's connection in the building to successfully play online w/o disconnecting (and we all have the same ISP).

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I have reset the modem and the router. I have even reset the router to factory setting. This didn't help.

Thanks

[trogers]

Follow the tips of this thread:

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=203247

[thepcguy]

Hmm. I can't see anything relevant in the suggested thread but I know how dumb I am so I could be wrong. Logically the problem would seem to be your modem since it doesn't happen when you connect to another wi-fi network and you know that your router was fine before the move. I don't think this sounds like a router port issue either (unless you've changed the router settings since the move).
I'm sorry but, like I say, I'm pretty dumb. I can just tell you what I would be suspicious of and that is INTERFERENCE. Try moving your modem far from your router and anything else that might be interfering with it - like fluorescent lighting, transformers/rectifiers, power supplies, wireless headphones etc.
It figures that using someone else's unsecured wifi AP might work well since there is just a wifi link between (presumably) your laptop and their AP. When you use your wired xbox it has no option but to go through your own modem.
My gut says "modem" here but I may be entirely wrong, I often am. Sorry I can't help more. Hope you find a solution. Kind regards.