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Wierd Connectivity Problem

May 8, 2005 12:24AM PDT

Wierd Connectivity Problem

I am a SBC Yahoo! DSL subscriber. I have the 2Wire router with 1 Ethernet, 1 USB and WiFi.

My home network consists of an older Win98SE machine, connected via USB, and two Win XP laptops, connected with Ethernet and/or WiFi.

Sometime back, the Win98SE machine stopped being able to browse (IE and Firefox) consistently with DSL (one or two pages OK, but then "Page Not Found"), but dial-up worked fine. I tried everything and ended up reformatting and re-installing. It was all good for a few months, but now is doing it again!

(Originally, I also had a Windows 95 machine, connected via Ethernet that suddenly exhibited the same symptoms at the same time as the Windows 98 machine. I never got around to reformatting and re-installing that one, but it did work for a while with Ethernet).

I have tried:
Norton 2004
Spybot
Thorough Scandisk
Remove and Rebuild Communications
Remove and Rebuild Winsock and Winsock2

I dread having to reformat and reinstall again, particularly if I need to do it over and over again.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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ethernet and USB
May 10, 2005 3:30PM PDT

You can't connect both ethernet and USB at the same time, or switching from one to the other without restarting the modem.

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I've seen this work sometimes.
May 10, 2005 9:41PM PDT

But it's such an oddball setup that I would paint a sign and hang on the system.

The sign reads "Unsupportable."

Bob

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"Unsupportable."
May 24, 2005 8:12AM PDT

You are so right... Sorry to get in this so late and I hope you are still receiving this thread.
First you you need a router and you dont have to spend a lot for one. Next get winXP and load on all your machines along with good virus/spyware, adware protection and you will not have internet problems.