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intermittant connections
I am having problems with WinME connecting to a Pipeline
85 Router. Sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't. Re-starting the computer doesn't seem to make any difference, and re-setting the router doesn't seem to make any difference, either. A laptop running XP never has any problem connecting. Is there some common problem with ME that can be fixed ? |
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In article , Ace says...
I am having problems with WinME connecting to a Pipeline 85 Router. Sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't. Re-starting the computer doesn't seem to make any difference, and re-setting the router doesn't seem to make any difference, either. A laptop running XP never has any problem connecting. Is there some common problem with ME that can be fixed ? Nope. No "common problem", anyway. It is all in the configuration of adapters, protocols, clients, and services. Windows Me does not seem to be much different from Windows 98SE, or Windows XP; at least not when I get my hands on my brother-in-law's network. I have always managed to get him going again after he has broken it. You have checked the cabling, and other hardware, I take it? -- Norman ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint |
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Yes, cables have been used on XP machine, never a
problem. NIC is new D-Link 530+. Have double-checked seating in PCI slot, seems OK. Thanks for response, but still wondering. -----Original Message----- In article , Ace says... I am having problems with WinME connecting to a Pipeline 85 Router. Sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't. Re-starting the computer doesn't seem to make any difference, and re-setting the router doesn't seem to make any difference, either. A laptop running XP never has any problem connecting. Is there some common problem with ME that can be fixed ? Nope. No "common problem", anyway. It is all in the configuration of adapters, protocols, clients, and services. Windows Me does not seem to be much different from Windows 98SE, or Windows XP; at least not when I get my hands on my brother-in-law's network. I have always managed to get him going again after he has broken it. You have checked the cabling, and other hardware, I take it? -- Norman ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint . |
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In article , Ace says...
Yes, cables have been used on XP machine, never a problem. NIC is new D-Link 530+. Have double-checked seating in PCI slot, seems OK. Thanks for response, but still wondering. Hmmm. Interesting thought; do you have "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" installed. If so, is the Windows Me 'browse master' setting anything other than 'disabled'? With a Windows XP machine in the loop, I believe that the XP machine automatically becomes the 'browser master', and the Windows Me machine may choke if it also tries to be the 'browse master'. This may actually be the "Windows Me" unique problem that you are wondering about. In my small, two computer, home LAN I have two Windows Me computers. I have an MTA running on one, so it stays on more often than the other. In my case, I have set the computer which is on most often as the default 'browse master', and then disable 'browse master' on the other. I don't seem to have an difficulty in this way. I don't know if it would be better to enable 'browse master' on your Me computer, and disable it on the XP computer, or the other way around. Maybe one of the MVPs will stumble into this thread and weigh in with an opinion. -- Norman ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint |
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Well, I ended up solving my problem by re-locating my D-
link NIC to another PCI slot, and downloaded a new driver for it that supported NDIS 4 & 5. After re-booting, I re- set my IP addresses for the router and ISP. Everything works now. Thanks for all replys ! -----Original Message----- I am having problems with WinME connecting to a Pipeline 85 Router. Sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't. Re-starting the computer doesn't seem to make any difference, and re-setting the router doesn't seem to make any difference, either. A laptop running XP never has any problem connecting. Is there some common problem with ME that can be fixed ? . |
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In a separate post 16 Aug 04, I reported my problem with inconsistent WinMe
accessability via IE through a LinkSys WAPR on a home LAN with a second Win XP Home system. The WinXP accessability is consistently good, but that for the WinMe system is very inconsistent. I have been able to access only Google search results for "windowsupdate" and a Sympatico-MSN search results for the same, plus some other search results. However, the WinME system will not connect to either the Windows Update site, or the MS Hotmail site. Given the responses from Norman, that there does not appear to be a "common WinMe problem", I would appreciate any insight that anyone can offer to provide a solution. I have not made any recent changes to any part of my home networked system. Bruce "ACE" wrote: Well, I ended up solving my problem by re-locating my D- link NIC to another PCI slot, and downloaded a new driver for it that supported NDIS 4 & 5. After re-booting, I re- set my IP addresses for the router and ISP. Everything works now. Thanks for all replys ! -----Original Message----- I am having problems with WinME connecting to a Pipeline 85 Router. Sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't. Re-starting the computer doesn't seem to make any difference, and re-setting the router doesn't seem to make any difference, either. A laptop running XP never has any problem connecting. Is there some common problem with ME that can be fixed ? . |
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QnJ1Y2VfTW9ycmlz?= says... In a separate post 16 Aug 04... You couldn't find a way to post this to the original thread? Message ID$ of that post? Do you expect me to dig through all the messages to find it? Hmmm. Searched, didn't find a "separate" post. Or, did you mean that this one is to be considered separate? Oops. The nature of NNTP service, even when linked with Web browsers through the Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000, is to thread posts by Message-ID$, if the poster uses the "Reply" button instead of the "New Post" button. I reported my problem with inconsistent WinMe accessability via IE through a LinkSys WAPR on a home LAN with a second Win XP Home system. The WinXP accessability is consistently good, but that for the WinMe system is very inconsistent. I have been able to access only Google search results for "windowsupdate" and a Sympatico-MSN search results for the same, plus some other search results. However, the WinME system will not connect to either the Windows Update site, or the MS Hotmail site. Given the responses from Norman, that there does not appear to be a "common WinMe problem", I would appreciate any insight that anyone can offer to provide a solution. I have not made any recent changes to any part of my home networked system. You can access some sites, but not all sites on the affected computer. http://www.google.com/ yes http://sympatico.msn.ca/ yes http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp no http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2 no I don't see a networking issue at all, here. If your LAN was broken, all four URLs should be a "no". Something else is afoot. Firewall, maybe. Bad entries in the 'hosts' file, maybe. A local proxy, like Promomitron, misconfigured, maybe. A browser hijacker, maybe. But nothing that fiddling with the Network properties will fix. -- Norman ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint |
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