Dan in AZ wrote:
Thanks to all who have pitched in with suggestions. Here's the latest:
After four Earthlink Support e-mails which didn't help, I used their live chat option. The guru gave me Name Server Addresses to add into my TCP/IP control panel. (I was set up to use PPP.) The addresses given to me were totally different from the ones the Earthlink Wizard had configured.
Anyway, I restart the 'puter and dial up, make the connection (as usual) and ... no fix. Explorer won't browse, iCab won't browse, Netscape won't browse.
The guru gives me a link to a FreePPP dialer which I install and configure. I dial up using FreePPP, make the connection and ... no fix. Explorer won't browse, iCab won't browse, Netscape won't browse.
Then, for the heck of it, I reconfigure TCP/IP back to PPP, dial up and, LO AND BEHOLD - IE BROWSES! Ditto iCab & Netscape. And I notice that the TCP/IP panel now shows an IP address in the proper field. I checked the activity log and it reveals that that was the first time in over fifty connections when an IP address showed up.
I tempt fate: I restart the 'puter, dial up ... NO BROWSE! I reconfigure to FreePPP, YES BROWSE! Back to PPP, YES BROWSE again!
So it seems that, for whatever reason, sometimes a connection will deliver and IP address and I can browse and sometimes it won't and I can't.
Are the gods toying with me...?
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Do you by any chance have two conflicting PPP prefs files or any other duplicate files from previous installs of OS or Browser?
File Buddy (free download makes these easy to find and weed out.
And, ( just my opinion here ) I would never put IE on the same boot partition with NS. . It never worked for me.
But I admit a bias toward NS. There always seemed to be some IE file or other causing NS to crash.
-- Adrian
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