ssh connection timeout

Sorry this is so long.  I am just trying to be complete.  Also, I have
been trying to solve this problem for over a month unsuccessfully.  This
is the first post I am attempting after my amateur research and nabble seems
like an appropriate place to post.

i have two comps running windows xp pro (home comp) and windows xp home 
(laptop).

They are both running cygwin and have openssh installed and running.  I 
take the laptop to work and home.  when my laptop is at work and 
connected to the lan, I can ssh into my home comp and vice versa--no
problem.  
However, if i connect the laptop to an unsecured wireless connection, I 
get a connection timeout from my home computer, but I can still login 
from my laptop to the home comp.  That sounds a little confusing...I 
have uploaded an image to diagram the previous paragraph.
http://www.nabble.com/file/67/ssh.bmp 

I am pretty much at a loss.  Because the connection works when the 
laptop is hard-wired, but it fails when on a wireless connection (I have
tried
different wireless connections).  I am running ZA firewall on both computers
and the they both have ssh and sshd allowed.  In fact, if I turn ZA off and
the windows firewall off, I get the same problem.

I am starting to wonder if connecting on an unsecrured wireless 
connection is unsafe and ssh somehow knows this, but I have been trying to 
solve this problem for about a month now and I haven't seen any 
documentation on ssh failing when connected to an unsecured wireless
connection.

One last thing.  In an attempt to solve this problem myself, I 
reinstalled the openssh package from the cygwin setup on my laptop.  Since 
then, I have been getting a cygrunsrv error.  So, the only way I can start 
the dameon is by manually calling "/usr/sbin/sshd."  When I do so, this 
is the error message I get:

#start#
home$ cygrunsrv -S sshd
cygrunsrv:  Error starting a service:  QueryServiceStatus:  win32 error 
1062:
The service has not been started.
#end#

Then I run

#start#
home$ /usr/sbin/sshd
#end#

and it starts.  But, I don't think this is causing the problem, because
I had connection problems long before I got this cygrunsrv error.  in fact,
it
still works when I take it to work.  One more thing, I just thought of:  I
just
checked the event viewer and sshd shows 2 strange errors when i call it
manually.  I don't get these errors when at work (they could be a result of
a 
weak wireless connection I had yesterday).

#START ERROR REPORT#
Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	sshd
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	0
Date:		9/19/2006
Time:		1:52:56 PM
User:		compname\usrname
Computer:	compname
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) cannot be found. 
The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or 
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be 
able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help 
and Support for details. The following information is part of the 
event: sshd: PID 3540: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address 
already in use..
#END ERROR REPORT#

2nd error report:

#START ERROR REPORT#
Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	sshd
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	0
Date:		9/19/2006
Time:		1:52:56 PM
User:		compname\usrname
Computer:	usrname
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) cannot be found. 
The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or 
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be 
able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help 
and Support for details. The following information is part of the 
event: sshd: PID 3540: fatal: Cannot bind any address..
#END ERROR REPORT#

This might be causing the problem, but I am not sure what it means.  I am
able
to connect to the internet with any browser.  This error might just be a
fluke
due to a bad connection yesterday.

Here is trying to login to my laptop from my home comp in debug mode while
the laptop is on a wireless connection:

#START#
home$ ssh -vvv Bernard@<ip address>
OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to <ip address> [<ip address>] port 22.
debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: connect to address <ip address> port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host  <ip address> port 22: Connection timed out
#END#

i don't always get the line "debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK"

Thanks for any response one might have
-Bernard
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