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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 (509) 982-2181 (408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services 42846865 (icq)WISP Operator since 1999! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam - 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! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
[WISPA] strange connectivity issues
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! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues
Marlon, I fixed my brother's XP two weeks ago with the same strange e-mail-but-no-IE condition. I could ping by NAME or IP ADDRESS just fine. The IE wouldn't work by NAME or IP ADDRESS but e-mail would. In fact, strangely, when entering a server's numeric IP address in the address bar, it wouldn't find it and re-wrote the address bar to http:///;, yes triple slashes and blank. I've seen that before but can't for the life of me recall what it was. Maybe that's benign. I downloaded FIREFOX and it failed similarly. I uninstalled IE7 and got back to IE6 but still the same. I checked his XP SP2 firewall and it was disabled...I didn't leave it that way. HI checked the HOSTS file and it wasn't corrupted. I tried rebooting with EVERYTHING turned off in MSCONFIG. Still the same. I brought up WORD and I tried entering www.cnn.com into the WORD OPEN field and WORD managed to render it to a point, so the internal browsing engine was working. Then a window popped up Your Spyware Doctor requires an update, do you want to do that now?...and I asked my brother where did you get this? and he couldn't recall. That scared me. I uninstalled it and everything I didn't know. Of course, I couldn't GOOGLE to see if it was OK...it could have been a legitimate program or a fake. Then I used the XP CD to do a system recovery and, after 1/2 hour, it was back with applications still installed and the desktop as it was...and, no problems. I turned on the XP firewall, downloaded DEFENDER (again) and installed it. So far, so good and my brother insists it's 10X faster than before it broke. What was it? I don't know. It was on a fast, new HP w/XP Media Center only a few months old. . . . j o n a t h a n -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 1:35 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues 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! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: Anyone else seeing strange stuff like this? Is there some bizarre windows update or virus program that's messing things up? Yeah, it's called Microsoft Windows. Serious answer: If there were anything that big going on, it'd probably be on CNN and people would be crying about the end of the world or something. Honestly, sounds like just a rash of several unrelated issues. I won't dispute that Vista is weird and counter-intuitive, but thus far the networking stack doesn't seem to be any more broken than XP's ever was. (I'm still a bit cranky about the loss of gaming performance and such, but that's not a WISPA issue really.) David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: Vista is a disaster. Crappy interface. Hides everything in strange places and in non intuitive fashion. I seen Vista for the first time a couple weeks ago. I felt stupid not being able to navigate so easily in front of the customer. Now I need to upgrade to Vista on my personal machines so that I can acquainted. George -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues
In several of my consulting customers, we use several differant types of anti-virus/anti-spyware proxy servers etc. Trend Micro is the most common, but their hardware box and their software proxy server. one company, a just bit under 200 users, after putting in Trend Micro's Interscan Web Security Suite and forcing everyone to run though the proxy server, we have had 0 issues of this! Slow browsing, unkonwn applications, things like that, SPYWARE, etc its all a pain in the ass! Weird stuff like, I can't browse, but can e-mail, etc, all can be attribuited to spyware apps, etc. .. lol Enjoy! Dennis On 5/25/07, Jonathan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marlon, I fixed my brother's XP two weeks ago with the same strange e-mail-but-no-IE condition. I could ping by NAME or IP ADDRESS just fine. The IE wouldn't work by NAME or IP ADDRESS but e-mail would. In fact, strangely, when entering a server's numeric IP address in the address bar, it wouldn't find it and re-wrote the address bar to http:///;, yes triple slashes and blank. I've seen that before but can't for the life of me recall what it was. Maybe that's benign. I downloaded FIREFOX and it failed similarly. I uninstalled IE7 and got back to IE6 but still the same. I checked his XP SP2 firewall and it was disabled...I didn't leave it that way. HI checked the HOSTS file and it wasn't corrupted. I tried rebooting with EVERYTHING turned off in MSCONFIG. Still the same. I brought up WORD and I tried entering www.cnn.com into the WORD OPEN field and WORD managed to render it to a point, so the internal browsing engine was working. Then a window popped up Your Spyware Doctor requires an update, do you want to do that now?...and I asked my brother where did you get this? and he couldn't recall. That scared me. I uninstalled it and everything I didn't know. Of course, I couldn't GOOGLE to see if it was OK...it could have been a legitimate program or a fake. Then I used the XP CD to do a system recovery and, after 1/2 hour, it was back with applications still installed and the desktop as it was...and, no problems. I turned on the XP firewall, downloaded DEFENDER (again) and installed it. So far, so good and my brother insists it's 10X faster than before it broke. What was it? I don't know. It was on a fast, new HP w/XP Media Center only a few months old. . . . j o n a t h a n -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 1:35 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues 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! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- Dennis Burgess, MCP, CCNA, A+, N+, Mikrotik Certified Consultant www.mikrotikconsulting.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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Yes, I agree. And, I have had very good luck with Trend Micro's on-line, free virus removal tool...as long as the browser works at all. I have fixed probably 20 PCs with this: http://housecall.trendmicro.com and use the free, on-line virus removal. It is the real thing except it loads via ActiveX but uses their up-to-date virus list. Once you've cleaned with that you can install and run the permanent anti-virus and anti-spyware of your choice. Their installed anti-virus product darned good. So is Free AGV: http://free.grisoft.com . . . j o n a t h a n -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Burgess Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 2:31 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues In several of my consulting customers, we use several differant types of anti-virus/anti-spyware proxy servers etc. Trend Micro is the most common, but their hardware box and their software proxy server. one company, a just bit under 200 users, after putting in Trend Micro's Interscan Web Security Suite and forcing everyone to run though the proxy server, we have had 0 issues of this! Slow browsing, unkonwn applications, things like that, SPYWARE, etc its all a pain in the ass! Weird stuff like, I can't browse, but can e-mail, etc, all can be attribuited to spyware apps, etc. .. lol Enjoy! Dennis On 5/25/07, Jonathan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marlon, I fixed my brother's XP two weeks ago with the same strange e-mail-but-no-IE condition. I could ping by NAME or IP ADDRESS just fine. The IE wouldn't work by NAME or IP ADDRESS but e-mail would. In fact, strangely, when entering a server's numeric IP address in the address bar, it wouldn't find it and re-wrote the address bar to http:///;, yes triple slashes and blank. I've seen that before but can't for the life of me recall what it was. Maybe that's benign. I downloaded FIREFOX and it failed similarly. I uninstalled IE7 and got back to IE6 but still the same. I checked his XP SP2 firewall and it was disabled...I didn't leave it that way. HI checked the HOSTS file and it wasn't corrupted. I tried rebooting with EVERYTHING turned off in MSCONFIG. Still the same. I brought up WORD and I tried entering www.cnn.com into the WORD OPEN field and WORD managed to render it to a point, so the internal browsing engine was working. Then a window popped up Your Spyware Doctor requires an update, do you want to do that now?...and I asked my brother where did you get this? and he couldn't recall. That scared me. I uninstalled it and everything I didn't know. Of course, I couldn't GOOGLE to see if it was OK...it could have been a legitimate program or a fake. Then I used the XP CD to do a system recovery and, after 1/2 hour, it was back with applications still installed and the desktop as it was...and, no problems. I turned on the XP firewall, downloaded DEFENDER (again) and installed it. So far, so good and my brother insists it's 10X faster than before it broke. What was it? I don't know. It was on a fast, new HP w/XP Media Center only a few months old. . . . j o n a t h a n -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 1:35 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues 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
RE: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues
Marlon, Sound like you covered all your bases here but here is my .02 worth. I have had issues like this in the past and it has always been related to one of three things. 1. If it is a new hookup from dialup or SAT usually it is some sort of a proxy issue, either proxy is enabled in internet explorer settings or there is a third party app installed for the dialup/sat. I had to reformat a PC one time because I couldn't get a clean uninstall of Directway's proxy software. 2. Mcaffee or Norton Virus/internet security is installed tyring to make sure that it stays installed on the PC and kept up to date. I have seen both programs totally hose a PC with the same issues you are describing. One of the first things I do on a PC with either of these to programs is uninstall it if it will let you and install AVG Antivirus and AVG anitspyware or MS defender. 3. There is a virus and or spyware on the PC. Thanks, Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 1:35 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues 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! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.8.0/817 - Release Date: 5/24/2007 4:01 PM -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues
Often, when you have issues like this, a good practice is to reset TCP/IP and Winsock. This can especially be true on machines that have been mucked up with Norton Internet (in)Security, which has an annoying habit of leaving its firewall settings intact after uninstallation on at least some versions. This fixes a lot of things at once and so is often a good quick fix. The instructions below walk through the process... Also, check out netstat (open command prompt, do netstat -ano (the n disables DNS and the o shows the PID). This can give you an idea as to what sort of connections the computer is making and attempting to make. It also often reveals viruses, as anything that is trying to spam out or spread itself out through the network will (generally) show up in here (although, viruses sometimes do hide themselves). -Clint Ricker Kentnis Technologies. TCP/IP and Winsock Reset Reset the Winsock and TCP/IP stack... Reset TCP/IP Command usage netsh int ip reset [log_file_name] To run the command successfully, you must specify a file name for the log where actions that are taken by netsh will be recorded. For example, at a command prompt, type either of the samples that are listed in the Command samples section. The TCP/IP stack will then be reset on a system, and the actions that were taken will be recorded in the log file, Resetlog.txt. The first sample creates the log file in the current directory, while the second sample creates a path where the log will reside. In either case, where the specified log file already exists, the new log will be appended to the end of the existing file. Command samples netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt Reset Winsock 1. Click Start, and then click Run. 2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK. 3. Locate the following registry subkeys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2 4. Right-click each key, and then click Delete. 5. Click Yes to confirm the deletion. Note Restart the computer after you delete the Winsock keys. This action creates new shell entries for those two registry subkeys. If you do not restart the computer after you delete the Winsock keys, the next step does not work correctly. When you restart the computer, you may see dialog boxes that mention TCP/IP problems and various event log messages that relate to services that you have installed. Ignore these messages. To reinstall TCP/IP, follow these steps: 1. Right-click the network connection, and then click Properties. 2. Click Install, click Protocol, and then click Add. 3. Click Have Disk 4. Type C:\Windows\inf, and then click OK. 5. In the list of available protocols, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click OK. 6. Restart the computer. - On 5/25/07, Chadd Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marlon, Sound like you covered all your bases here but here is my .02 worth. I have had issues like this in the past and it has always been related to one of three things. 1. If it is a new hookup from dialup or SAT usually it is some sort of a proxy issue, either proxy is enabled in internet explorer settings or there is a third party app installed for the dialup/sat. I had to reformat a PC one time because I couldn't get a clean uninstall of Directway's proxy software. 2. Mcaffee or Norton Virus/internet security is installed tyring to make sure that it stays installed on the PC and kept up to date. I have seen both programs totally hose a PC with the same issues you are describing. One of the first things I do on a PC with either of these to programs is uninstall it if it will let you and install AVG Antivirus and AVG anitspyware or MS defender. 3. There is a virus and or spyware on the PC. Thanks, Chadd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 1:35 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WISPA] strange connectivity issues 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
