re: Modem connects but no data gets transferred
Monday, May 28, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(966 messages posted)
Yeah, I get something like that, too. I call them "fake connects" and I've found
2 causes.
#1. I'm guessing, but your ISP accepts your ID and passwords and then nothing.
When you try to send something the little icon in the system tray lights up to show
something going out, but nothing comes back?
When this happens to me (once or twice a month) I quit and try a few hours later,
sometimes I wait till starting time at my ISP's HQ. Now the ISP does not own the
whole national net it has. It contracts out to local servers. Apparently they have
one server for the IDs and PWs and then they pass control to another. Somewhere
there is a server that is not responding. When the personnel at the ISP notice that
they'll fix it. You can call them about it if you wish. But this is Memorial Day
weekend and your support staff is probably stuffing hot dogs in their faces and getting
their 1st sunburn of 2007.
#2. In opening and closing browsers, tabs, cancelling the email client before it's
finished connecting, antivirus updating in background, etc, I've been able to jam
something in my modem. Nothing will go out or in properly. If I disconnect my modem
can finish handshaking with the carrier wave and such but can't sign on. In that
case, I just reboot and it's cured.
If your situation is anything like that, go to Start > Settings > Control Panel
> System and uninstall your modem. Then go thru the hassle of reinstalling it.
That is, I'm saying your driver may've become corrupted.
On Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 5:52 am, Charlene wrote:
>I have a 7 year-old Dell computer using Windows ME and use a dial-up modem to connect
>to the internet. The last couple of days when I try to connect, the modem dials
and
>connects to my ISP but no data gets transferred. I check the connection status info
>and it shows that the modem is connected but no lights are flashing in the little
>monitors on bottom right-hand corner of my monitor. My mail cannot get through
and
>I get a message stating that it cannot connect to my mail server, etc. I then close
>Outlook and open my browser, Firefox. Here I cannot view any pages and it acts as
>if I am not connected at all. I disconnect the dial-up connection and then try dialing
>in again. Sometimes I can get connected and everything is fine but most of the time
>my system freezes up while it is dialing in this second time and I then have to
shut-down
>the computer. This is very frustrating as I try to keep a very clean computer using
>several virus protection programs and defrag at least once a month. I am not sure
>if my computer is the culprit or if there is some type of virus causes this that
>my programs aren't catching. I always do a virus scan in safe-mode. I know that
my
>computer's age might be a factor but I have two other computers that are older
than
>this one and are running Win98 and work great. They both have no problems when dialing
>up. I would like to solve this problem as I am not ready to get a new computer at
>the moment and if this is an easy fix, I would like to go that way first. I checked
>all of my dial-up connection info and it is all correct. The bytes received never
>get over 400 when I first log on.
>
>Thanks
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