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Sir John Quixote Knight
Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 76 Location: The West
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:16 pm Post subject: Problem with my connection |
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My Internet connection is being stupid. Whenever I leave my computer sitting untouched for a few hours, the Internet connection stops working, even though it says it's connected. There's nothing to do but restart the computer to get it working again.
This will be a problem if I finish folding a shrubbery in the wee small hours of the morning.
Anyone had a problem like this?
(Win XP, DSL, on a wireless home network.)
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Sir Prize Baron
Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 223 Location: Isle of Saints, Scholars, Shebeens and Spike
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, one of mine did this too. It was ZoneAlarm that was the problem. I hacked it out with a blunt axe. (One of the offspring had thought it was a good idea to install it. I think it was letting through it's favourite pop-up ads as well.)
Bonajn arbetojn!
Sinjoro_Premio _________________ I speak Esperanto like a native - Spike Milligan |
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Michelle Moistened Bint
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 10232 Location: At my desk
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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I've used Zone Alarm for years, but found that it was Zone Alarm that was causing the home network problems.
Cohiba is a pretty clever fella and he reckons ZA can be a real pain. We're just using the Windoze firewall now. _________________ My brain hurts.
Jammy's Brain Donor.
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Sir John Quixote Knight
Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 76 Location: The West
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:01 am Post subject: |
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Wouldn't you know it? I've got Zone Alarm. But not for long, heh heh heh.
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Dagger Prince
Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 2918 Location: BC Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:49 am Post subject: |
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I've never had much of any problems with Zonealarm. _________________ When in doubt, kick it until it works. |
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Cohiba Prince
Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 1721 Location: A tabbaco plantation
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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I have also had that problem with XP and my cable co.. Was losing the ability to dns lookups, only fix was to reboot. I changed my dns servers, and also putting the latest patches helped to. But it acted like the internet connection dropped. No zone alarm.. just xp firewall and a linksys router. _________________ Smoke-em if you got-em I do.. |
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wraithe40 Baron
Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 120 Location: Western Australia
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: he he he he he |
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Hey ,
My firewall works fantastic and its not zonealarm or winflaws...
I use shorewall...
works great...havent had any worms or trojans or even a virus either...
Thought i should install a anti-virus but hey never get those problems...
I suppose it may be worth it to protect those poor peasants that use winflaws and dont have the magick to use the POWER of the finger...mmmmmm
_________________ The KNIGHT WITCH with the:
ABIT KV-85 with Sempron 2800+ 64 bit
768 mb DDR400 ram
80 gb H/D + DVD R/RW dual layer + CD R/RW
NVIDIA 6200 AGP 256 mb ram
Ethernet and DSL..
MANDRIVA 2006 (of course linux, what else is there)
plus 3 other toys..
celeron 2.4 ghz
and a celeron-D 2.66 ghz
and a C3 toy of my sons...
No 5 will be born soon..he he he.. |
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wraithe40 Baron
Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 120 Location: Western Australia
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: Problem with my connection |
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Sir John Quixote wrote: | My Internet connection is being stupid. Whenever I leave my computer sitting untouched for a few hours, the Internet connection stops working, even though it says it's connected. There's nothing to do but restart the computer to get it working again.
This will be a problem if I finish folding a shrubbery in the wee small hours of the morning.
Anyone had a problem like this?
(Win XP, DSL, on a wireless home network.)
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Just to be polite and not being silly now..(wont last)...
it could be a network timeout on idle..
i'm sorry i dont know where to look for it in windows but u can set a connection time on networks if the connection is idle for a length of time...
same thing for the dsl connection too..not knowing the wireless modem setups used today i cant tell you where to look but hunt that down and check it...
Zonealarm may have the same feature in there firewall...
i can understand its frustrating as i spend as much time on my sons pc as i do on the linux box's...but i work with linux where the winbox is just to keep it going...
WELL THAT'S IT FOR BEING SENSIBLE...
get hammer it will fix ur problem then...lol _________________ The KNIGHT WITCH with the:
ABIT KV-85 with Sempron 2800+ 64 bit
768 mb DDR400 ram
80 gb H/D + DVD R/RW dual layer + CD R/RW
NVIDIA 6200 AGP 256 mb ram
Ethernet and DSL..
MANDRIVA 2006 (of course linux, what else is there)
plus 3 other toys..
celeron 2.4 ghz
and a celeron-D 2.66 ghz
and a C3 toy of my sons...
No 5 will be born soon..he he he.. |
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