No problem with getting on the Internet with the Desktop PC - it's just that every now and then I can't get it on the laptop.

I'm not sure what you mean by "unhooking my desktop from the wired connection and plugging it into the Belkin wireless one", Mike. There are five sockets on the back of the Belkin, one for the cable from teh modem, and the other for plugging in any PCs, and I've got my PC plugged into one of them. The wireless used by the laptop, comes from the aerial on the top, with teh signal coming from the ethernet cable from the modem (into which the virginmedia coaxial with the broadband is plugged).