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Zone Alarm clashing with DSL Modem

Apr 1, 2005 3:03PM PST

I have a DSL connection through a modem with a built in hardware firewall. I installed the Zone Alarm firewall to give me a "in and out" protection which the hardware firewall does not provide. I find that as the day progresses the ZoneAlarm and the hardware firewall seem to clash. What I mean is that after I boot up the computer in the morning the connection to the internet works flawlessly, but as the day progresses late in the afternoon I cannot get through the firewall and neither the Outlook Express nor the Internet Explorer can find the server till I turn the Zone Alarm off. First I thought that it may be just a coincidence, but it is happening regularly that I am now convinced that it is a clash between the hardware and the software firewall.
Surprisingly, when I operated with these two firewalls when my operating system was Win 98SE I did not experience any access hang ups to the server. I only started getting this problem recemtly after I upgraded from Win98SE to WinXP Professional version.
I checked to make sure that the Microsoft's firewall built in the WinXP was turned off. I am told that this latter is not a very effective firewall.
Would appreciate if anybody has had a similar experience and has found a solution.

My system is a Dell 4100 with a P-lll 800 Mhz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 2 Hard drives a 80GB and a 20 GB running Win XP Pro edition

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ZA and DSL
Apr 4, 2005 8:00AM PDT
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ZA and DSL
Apr 4, 2005 4:01PM PDT

I am running Zone Alarm version 5.5.062.011

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ZA 5.5
Apr 5, 2005 1:33AM PDT

There have been instances of people noting your porblem with ZA 5.5 and the recommendation was revert to 4.5. This is just my observation from forum posts, no first hand knowledge. Suggest you research further

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Here it is. . .
Apr 5, 2005 8:13AM PDT
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Works Great
Apr 7, 2005 4:30AM PDT

with cable. Alot of people are useing DSL because its cheaper than cable, but there seems to be tons of problems with DSL. Goodluck,sounds like a hassle to me.