I went back there today (the xp machine, not the vista one).
I put their ip addy in my laptop. Things worked just fine. They had 3 megs
down 3.3 megs up. (testing to the Seattle Speakeasy site)
Put their ip addy in their computer, 1 ping went, all the rest failed. Put
my test ip in their machine. Got 3 pings then all failed.
Next I put in a router. Programmed it (via their machine) to use their ip
addy as it's static ip. Customer is now working famously. They bought the
router and will just go with that for now. We'll see how long till
something else breaks. grin
I've printed out that xp networking fix. I'll give it a try next time
something like this comes up.
laters,
Marlon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues
I think the common thread is a corrupted TCP/IP stack in most of your
situations. From techrepublic.com:
There are times when a network snafu completely or partially corrupts your
IP installation, which causes your TCP/IP network connection to fail or
behave erratically. When this happens, the best solution is to rebuild the
TCP/IP protocol stack.
In previous versions of Windows, rebuilding the TCP/IP protocol stack was
a simple operation--you just removed and reinstalled TCP/IP. In Windows
XP, you can't remove TCP/IP because it's considered an integral part of
the operating system.
However, XP does come with a command-line utility--called NetShell--that
allows you to reset all TCP/IP-related registry settings to their default
values. The end result is essentially the same as installing a brand-new
TCP/IP configuration.
To reset all TCP/IP-related registry settings, open a command prompt and
type the following command:
/netsh int ip reset <filename>/
You must specify a log file in the <filename> placeholder for this command
to work. Details about which registry keys were modified will appear in
the log file.
I do not know if this same utility works in Vista as I am not running
Vista and do not have access to it from my house. Please let us know what
you find that finally fixes these issues.
Scriv
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
I've had some very strange things happen of late.
Wed. I hooked up a new customer. Couldn't get their system to work but
my laptop did. I told them to call MacAfee and see if they could figure
out what was blocking things. They ended up taking the computer to a
friend's house, hooking it up to a dsl connection via a router and it
worked just fine. Why would it not work via static ip but would via
dhcp?
Yesterday I did a Vista setup. It would connect to the wireless router
just fine but would not get to the internet. I finally went into IE
options and set all of them back to the defaults. What BS would have
been in IE that would have told it to not use the established network
connection? There were no proxy's set up either. Worked with the same
router and wildblue sat. connection. I changed the wireless network name
and local ip addy. Nothing else changed. It still says that the DNS
suffix is wildblue.net. I can't find that anywhere in the machine. Oh
yeah, the machine had both IE and firefox, neither worked.
Vista is a disaster. Crappy interface. Hides everything in strange
places and in non intuitive fashion.
Today I get an email from a customer that can email but IE won't work.
This one's dialup.
Anyone else seeing strange stuff like this? Is there some bizarre
windows update or virus program that's messing things up?
Marlon
(509) 982-2181
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services
42846865 (icq) WISP Operator since
1999!
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