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Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Nefarious on February 15, 2004, 02:37:30 PM: Ive got a problem, Me and my girlfriend have a little home network, two computers and a printer. My computer is the host and I run Windows XP home, and hers is Windows Me.

Ive had no problems, at all, what so ever until about a month ago. One day She tries to pull some files off of my computer and she cant reach my folder. I try to fool around with it, and it seems to work only when it wants too. Now today, I sit down and try to get this puppy working again. So I run the Network Wizard and go through the process.

It works, but now it likes to disconnect and reconnect every couple minutes. Any Ideas on what could be my network woes?
Title: Re: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Pfunk on February 15, 2004, 03:07:07 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Nefarious
My computer is the host and I run Windows XP home, and hers is Windows Me. Any Ideas on what could be my network woes?

I think you answered your own question.
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: hawker238 on February 15, 2004, 03:08:17 PM: I have a Linksys wireless router, and a Linksys wireless USB access point. When the phone is picked up, I am frequently disconnected. Any idea how to solve this?

(I've changed the channels several times)
Title: Re: Re: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Nefarious on February 15, 2004, 03:14:39 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Pfunk
I think you answered your own question.

This network has successfully ran for over a year and a half...

I dont beleive it has anything to do with the systems.
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Nashwan on February 15, 2004, 04:21:56 PM: Quote
It works, but now it likes to disconnect and reconnect every couple minutes. Any Ideas on what could be my network woes?

See if power management is turning the network card off.

Control panel - system - hardware - device manager - double click your network card - power management tab - remove tick from "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".

Unfourtunately there are a lot of other things that could be causing it.
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: pugg666 on February 15, 2004, 05:13:03 PM: proxy setting problem??
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: vorticon on February 15, 2004, 05:48:13 PM: you sure whatever folder she's trying to access hasnt been set so that its no longer shared???
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: jigsaw on February 15, 2004, 06:55:43 PM: WinXP requires an actual login for shared files/printers whereas the older versions of win will hand them up for anyone once shared. Had the same problem for a while until I ended up converting everything over to XP for simplicity.
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Vulcan on February 15, 2004, 06:56:19 PM: Quote
but now it likes to disconnect and reconnect every couple minutes.

Dodgey network cable.
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Gyro/T69 on February 15, 2004, 08:23:43 PM: router problems? Here http://www.dslreports.com/forums/all

Linksys BEFSR41 ver.3 was having and for some, still are with constant disconnected problems, untill the new firmware came out. Check the above link for help with all network problems.
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Nefarious on February 15, 2004, 08:48:34 PM: It seems like it disconnects and comes right back on. It seems to be working a lot better now though.

Thanks for all the info guys, and Nashwan I went into my DM and disabled the computer allowing to turn it off. Hopefully this was the fix.
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Bonden on February 15, 2004, 11:02:35 PM: Hiya Nefarious - off topic here but how are things at work these days. Are you still at Froggy's? Sorry I never made it in while you were working...

Bonden
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: AKcurly on February 16, 2004, 12:11:21 AM: Quote
Originally posted by hawker238
I have a Linksys wireless router, and a Linksys wireless USB access point. When the phone is picked up, I am frequently disconnected. Any idea how to solve this?
(I've changed the channels several times)

Do you have the provided filter between the phone and wall jack?

curly
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: hawker238 on February 16, 2004, 04:32:08 PM: I don't believe so. I'll check for that....
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Nefarious on February 16, 2004, 08:18:20 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Bonden
Hiya Nefarious - off topic here but how are things at work these days. Are you still at Froggy's? Sorry I never made it in while you were working...

Bonden

Hey!

Froggy's closed in March of 03' the owner had nearly died the christmas of 2002 IRC. We stayed open till a week after St Pattys day, we had a huge party the day they closed.

I stayed in Pittsburgh until June, then I graduated from college and moved back to West Virginia. Now Im on the Great Job Hunt!

Other than that everythings been going great.
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Bonden on February 16, 2004, 11:13:21 PM: Sorry to hear about Froggy - glad all is well with you, take care

~~Bonden~~
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: JB73 on February 17, 2004, 12:21:52 AM: never mentioned that i saw here... winME cant read NTFS partitions....

XP runs best in NTFS (in fact there would be no security with out NTFS)

possibe conflict there?>
Title: Any Home Networking Gurus here?
Post by: Nefarious on February 17, 2004, 12:29:41 AM: Ever since I did what Nashwan told me, it hasnt disco'd...

Thanks again!