Hi all,
Hoping someone can shed some light on a very odd problem I have.
I have a small home network. Two laptops and one desktop PC. Broadband connection with a wired and wireless router. All running XP. The two laptops are connected wirelessly to the router. The desktop is plugged into it via an Ethernet connection. At the moment this is only used as a common internet connection - I haven't networked the machines to each other.
All was working fine, until I had a Windows error on the desktop PC. I reinstalled Windows over the top of the old installation, and everything seems to work fine, except...
The desktop pc connects to the internet OK, but will then (after 5 minutes or so of the computer being switched on) lose the connection. I cannot get it back unless I close down and reboot the PC. When it works, it works fine. When it stops, it times out in the browser.
When it has stopped working, if I open a command window, I can ping OK (so ping www.google.com works just fine.). The other machines (the laptops) can access the internet no problem at all, and don't stop working.
Does all this indicate that it is the LAN connection that is failing rather then the internet connection (I have tried forcing the internet connection to use a fixed IP address and specific DNS addresses, to no avail)?
How can I test if that is the case?
Does anyone have any bright ideas, or should I save time and just throw the whole lot out of the window right now
(I guess my next step if nobody has any suggestions is to do a freash install of Windows, but I don't really want to have to reinstall all my programs etc if possible...)
Many thanks for any ideas!
Jon
Hoping someone can shed some light on a very odd problem I have.
I have a small home network. Two laptops and one desktop PC. Broadband connection with a wired and wireless router. All running XP. The two laptops are connected wirelessly to the router. The desktop is plugged into it via an Ethernet connection. At the moment this is only used as a common internet connection - I haven't networked the machines to each other.
All was working fine, until I had a Windows error on the desktop PC. I reinstalled Windows over the top of the old installation, and everything seems to work fine, except...
The desktop pc connects to the internet OK, but will then (after 5 minutes or so of the computer being switched on) lose the connection. I cannot get it back unless I close down and reboot the PC. When it works, it works fine. When it stops, it times out in the browser.
When it has stopped working, if I open a command window, I can ping OK (so ping www.google.com works just fine.). The other machines (the laptops) can access the internet no problem at all, and don't stop working.
Does all this indicate that it is the LAN connection that is failing rather then the internet connection (I have tried forcing the internet connection to use a fixed IP address and specific DNS addresses, to no avail)?
How can I test if that is the case?
Does anyone have any bright ideas, or should I save time and just throw the whole lot out of the window right now
(I guess my next step if nobody has any suggestions is to do a freash install of Windows, but I don't really want to have to reinstall all my programs etc if possible...)
Many thanks for any ideas!
Jon
