re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at 4:07 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Fred Malott (1 messages posted) I've had the exact same problem as well as well, (different DELL model and wireless DSL is a Linksys) but exact same symptoms. After much experimentation (and to my chagrin) I found simply shutting down ZoneAlarm fixes the problem, (AVG and MS spyware still running) - interestingly I never had the problem with win2K and ZoneAlarm, which is why I didn't suspect it, only when I upgraded (clean install) wXP did I start to have that infuriating connection dropping problem. Gonnamiss ZA but I'm hopeful the issue will get addressed Hope that helps someone //************ // On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 5:48 am, James Carter wrote: >I have the exact same problem as well, and I thought it was just me. I have a Dell >Dimension 8100 running Windows XP Home, SP1, version 2002. This problem started >after I got my cable modem. It's a Motorola Surfboard, the newer version, but the >problem happened with my old Surfboard modem, too. My router is a Netgear RP614, >4 port. I am running AVG antivirus and Zone Alarm's free firewall. > >It's maddening. Like it was mentioned above, my connection will go anywhere between >30 minutes to 3 hours, sometimes more, and it isn't based on activity level. One >thing that is slightly different - I do not get a message about my network cable >being unplugged. There's actually no indication that a connection is lost until >I try to get on the internet. > >I also have an old AMD machine running Win98 hooked up - and this is the best part >- it does NOT loose it's connection. I find it suspicious that previous posts have >had XP on Dell machines, and this is not a Dell problem? > >I'm currently doing some internet research on this, and I will definitely post here >if I find anything new. > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (James Carter: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 5:48 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (B.C.: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 4:13 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (GM: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 4:34 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (B.C.: Wed, Jan 1, 2003, 5:46 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Tom Swanson: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 7:47 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (dnudelman: Fri, May 7, 2004, 10:08 am) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Tom Swanson: Fri, May 7, 2004, 1:38 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Bob Forsyth: Fri, Jul 23, 2004, 8:57 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (James Carter: Tue, Jul 27, 2004, 5:48 am) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (nelson: Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 8:13 am) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Brett Pierce: Thu, Sep 2, 2004, 10:33 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Fred Malott: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 4:07 pm) If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Lam Jam: Mon, Oct 18, 2004, 10:13 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Tom Borden: Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 12:40 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (vida: Wed, Feb 2, 2005, 6:28 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Barry Howarth: Sat, Mar 26, 2005, 7:26 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (David: Tue, May 24, 2005, 2:24 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Anthony: Wed, May 25, 2005, 6:13 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (David: Wed, May 25, 2005, 7:14 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (HJam72: Tue, Jun 7, 2005, 11:05 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Billbo: Sat, Sep 17, 2005, 10:23 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Xavier Castillo: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 9:04 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (john: Mon, Jun 20, 2005, 3:59 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (adam: Sun, Sep 11, 2005, 5:07 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Karn: Tue, Oct 25, 2005, 8:15 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jason: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 3:03 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Karn: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 2:31 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jason: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 8:35 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Mark: Wed, Nov 2, 2005, 3:29 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Steve: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 1:50 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Rajesh Sharma: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 8:15 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Kelvin: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 11:50 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Jesse: Wed, Nov 30, 2005, 11:35 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Ed: Tue, Dec 20, 2005, 6:54 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Sreev: Tue, Feb 7, 2006, 9:55 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (david: Thu, Jun 22, 2006, 12:35 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (JTor: Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 9:31 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (carol: Mon, May 14, 2007, 2:05 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Bob N: Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 11:26 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (notspace: Sun, Jun 10, 2007, 2:46 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Glen Taylor: Sun, Jul 8, 2007, 9:58 am) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (notspace: Wed, Jul 9, 2008, 9:57 pm) re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Trevor: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:48 pm) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Chirag Desai: Tue, Jul 17, 2007, 5:38 am) re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (BobK: Mon, Jul 30, 2007, 5:20 am) re: DISCONNECTION at random (IRRITATION: Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 4:08 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum