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re: Internet connection breaks regularly
Saturday, June 7, 2003 at 8:19 am
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Posted by USMinion (1 messages posted)


You need to run low level network tests like ping and tracert these two programs will tell you what is going on, what addresses the PC's are searching for and possibly answer your questions.


On Thursday, January 2, 2003 at 9:40 am, Jason wrote:
>I *think* what may be happening is that Windows is looking for a DHCP server when
>the connection breaks. I took several steps that some of you recommended: upgraded
>router firmware (BEFSR41), manually set IP address / subnet mask / DNS address, disabled
>ICS, and disabled DHCP within the router. Result: connection still breaks, but
>it is no longer simultaneous on both machines (odd). Is it possible that each machine
>is still individually looking for a DHCP server? Is there any way to ensure that
>they are not? How would I do this on XP and ME?


Written in response to:
re: Internet connection breaks regularly (Jason: Thursday, January 2, 2003 at 9:40 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Internet connection breaks regularly (Skal Tura: Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 10:18 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Internet connection breaks regularly (JP: Tue, Dec 31, 2002, 9:22 am)
-re: Internet connection breaks regularly (ezeebob: Tue, Dec 31, 2002, 12:53 pm)
*re: Internet connection breaks regularly (Donn: Tue, Dec 31, 2002, 1:18 pm)
*re: Internet connection breaks regularly (James Lim: Thu, Jan 2, 2003, 7:41 am)
-re: Internet connection breaks regularly (Jason: Thu, Jan 2, 2003, 9:40 am)
-re: Internet connection breaks regularly (USMinion: Sat, Jun 7, 2003, 8:19 am)
-re: Internet connection breaks regularly (Skal Tura: Sun, Feb 1, 2004, 10:18 am)
-re: Internet connection breaks regularly (Jay: Mon, Mar 22, 2004, 8:05 pm)
-re: Internet connection breaks regularly (Isaac: Fri, Sep 2, 2005, 6:33 pm)
*re: Internet connection breaks regularly (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Sep 2, 2005, 8:12 pm)
*Solution (Ron Harp: Sun, Feb 4, 2007, 5:37 pm)
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