why does router let the admin know I have connected?

I am not on a wireless connection yet. We are using a regular connection to the laptop. I don't understand why the router always has to let the admin know that I have connected. The router doesnt do this with the desktops. This happens when I wake my laptop from sleep or merely turning it on. Granted, we are at present using an old wireless G netgear router with the wireless part turned off. We will soon be upggrading to the Belkin N wireless router.

I am just now learning about laptops and connections so please be patient with me and explain what you mean.

Thank you!

 

What do you mean by "the router always has to let the admin know that I have connected"? What admin? What router do you own? What laptop do you own? What operating system do you have?

 

I second kegobeer - clarification (and specific detail) is needed.

 

That's what I call irony

 

Review the router configuration settings. Or talk to the administrator. Possibility is that a range of IP addresses have been preset, and any new ones would kick off a messsage to the network admin.

cheers ...

 

My boyfriend is the admin. He has the computers all networked together. Router is the Linksys WRT54G. I have a Acer ASPIRE 5536-5883 running Vista. He runs XP on his system.

We havent set up the wireless network as of yet. Basically, everytime I wake from sleep or turn on my laptop, he gets a message on his computer "new device detected".

 

Because the networking protocols used by Windows keep track of all the other hosts attached to the local subnetwork and, so far as I know, any Windows-OS will pop up that sort of a message box when a new host connects to the network and starts sending out traffic such as a DHCP request for an IP address (which goes out as a broadcast or multicast packet, so every host on the network can "see" the packet), and whatnot.

I believe that if you try it yourself - keep your laptop turned on and connected to the network, then power off one of the other computers, wait about half an hour or so (it can take time for all of the host tables to be updated), then fire it up again while watching your computer, you should get a similar sort of message.

 

I have four computers on my network (workgroup), and I never receive any such message, on any of my machines, using any of my Linksys or D-Link routers. Exactly how does your boyfriend have things networked?

 

You don't? I do, although I've only seen it when I've been in one of the networking applets on _Vista; however, I have gotten it occasionally on my old XP as well.

 

Nope. If I happen to be in the network applet I'll see a computer join, but I never get a pop-up notification.

 

On my XP box, I used to get a little pop-up in the notification tray, but now that I think about it, that only happened when the device was unrecognized - because I didn't get a notification each time my wife's laptop came online.

My guess would be that for whatever reason, either accidental or intentional, the OP's boyfriend's computer doesn't "recognize" her laptop when it comes online, and gives the "new device" notification.

 

I am guessing it is an XP notification pop-up thing. Not a router thing.
My wife and I are connected to a wireless Netgear router. I have Vista she has XP.
My wife's XP computer generates many different pop-up windows as I muck around with the router from my computer. My Vista system never generates pop-up windows. I havn't looked at her system to see if I can turn-off her pop-up notifications. There may be a setting on her computer that can turn off the pop-up notifications.

 

To the OP: the next time a pop up appears, have your boyfriend click on it. Write down the complete message and post it here.

 

Turn off network discovery option in Windows Vista.

 

I don't think you can turn off Network Discovery if you are using another firewall, and want to disable the Windows Firewall.

 

dhcp notifications??

 

You probably have media sharing enabled on Vista. XP will see the network device and give a notification.