Threads Replies Last Post 34 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>   Networking a USB broadband connection Hi out there. I wonder if anyone knows if it is possible to internet connection share a USB broadband modem on a network. This modem is gets a wireless signal from the provider. (For Australian readers, I'm on Telstra's Next G wireless broadband with a USB desktop modem) I am using a D-Link 802.11g router, connected to the host pc via ethernet. The idea is to connect to the home wireless... 4 13.07.2007 23:52:00 Shared user folders across a network. Hi, I have a small home network of several computers used by the family. Currntly I have them set up so that the user folders (my documents, settings etc) are on the one machine and are shared out to be accessed from the other machines. The idea is that I want any family member to be able to log in from any machine and have access to all the same files and settings. This works, as lon... 1 13.07.2007 23:30:08 XP won't recognise my router, some help please I have 4 computers in my house and wanted to make it so that they can all use the broadband we have installed. So I went out and bought a router. The problem is XP just won't connect to it properly. I follow all of the instructions in the manual, and still I cannot connect to the internet on an XP PC. Am I doing something drastically wrong? Heres what the manual says: 1. go Start-Setti... 5 13.07.2007 23:10:57 Please help... How do I combine 2 enabled network adapters? Hi all... Kind of a strange question, but I need help As soon as possible.. I have _2_ seperate networking devices enabled, one is a wired ethernet port which has network 1 into it, and I also have a wireless card that is connected to an entirely seperate modem/network within close range.. Right now, the way I am telling windows which device to send/receive on is by typing: route a... 2 13.07.2007 22:58:28 Is network file-sharing possible with AOL? Following AOL's instructions, and using their own disk and provided router, I set up 1 PC by Ethernet, and the 2nd by wireless adaptor. An AOL Screen Name and Password has to be permanently assigned to the router, after which, either PC can access the Internet without the other being on - unlike ICS. However, in effect, no network has been set up through Windows XP, thus it (Pro and Home... 6 13.07.2007 22:14:10 First line in Tracert Hello, I have a question about the first line in tracert. We just had some network guys come in and set up a new network and firewall. Things suddenly got a lot slower accessing the internet. In every tracert, the first line times out. Is this a DNS problem? Like is it trying to resolve using the local domain server first, then giving up and trying the ISP's? Here's an example: ... 4 13.07.2007 19:29:53 Does it possible to have 2 broadband connections on 1 pc and 1 phone line? Hi, I used to connect ADSL+2 (broadband) connection to connect to my ISP. They have provided me UserID and Pwd to connect it as we did DUN (dailup networking). Broadband modem is SmartAX MT841 sterlite. Now I have 2 broadband accounts one is registered with one phone number and other is registered with other phone no. Till June i was able to access both account from 1 phone connect... 2 13.07.2007 18:16:31 Is this only for the tech-saavy? Hi -- I saw a nice router/access point but am hesitant to buy because I know nothing about Linux. Here is part of the description: "The unit comes pre-flashed with DD-WRT Firmware, v.23 SP2. DD-WRT v.23 SP2 Third Party Firmware was developed by BrainSlayer. It is the premier firmware for the wireless routers that have the Linux Operating System (OS) inside. To see why everyone raves... 5 13.07.2007 18:14:19 No access to win XP home share I have a lingering problem on one Winxp home machuine on a lan with several XP pro machines and one XP home. (also a linux samba server). All have good connectivity thanks to recent thread with Chuck and many visits to Pchuck.net. The one machine remains inaccessable from the others. (except the linux machine which has never had that problem). These are some of the network settings: ... 5 13.07.2007 17:40:26 Isolating server from wide area network I have a small network in my office. It connects to the internet via a Linksys BEFSR411 router (with a cable modem on the WAN port). Given the faster speeds of Gigabit for transfering files, I have a neatgear Gigabit switch connected to the uplink port on the Linksys router and have 3 machines connected to the Gigabit switch. All is well with the network and internet connections. I w... 7 13.07.2007 17:11:13 Home Network on XP Help This is probably a no brainer. I have 2 machines networked through a netcomm modem router. The home network used to work. Now my machine will not see the network or its own share folder, the 2nd machine does. I was printing to the printer which is connected to the LPT port on the 2nd machine and suddenly I could not print and the network seemed to have disappeared. I have run ... 3 13.07.2007 15:19:30 changing to domain from workgroup I have a user who wants to use her laptop on our network. I can't change from workgroup to Domain. I do a ipconfig, it has all the correct ip addresses, gateway, dns. I cant ping the server, cant get out on the internet. Even using a wirelss connection, I still can't see the network or the internet. When I look at the internet connection, the numbers are very low, send 236, receive 13... 3 13.07.2007 15:06:03 Wireless networking XP Pro to XP Home I'm running two computers (XP Home and XP Pro) through a D-Link Wireless Router for internet usage. The Home computer is connected to the Router directly, whereas the Pro computer is connected Wirelessly. All Internet works perfectly, and also gaming between the computers works fine aswell. After trying to setup a proper network (so as to share files and printers) through the "Setup a H... 6 13.07.2007 04:22:01 Name resolution over WAN Our company has 16 locations accross the U.S. For years we've had a frame relay connecting our branches to the Corporate office. We don't have any Windows servers, so all of our file shareing has been simply through peer-to-peer networking. We just upgraded our connection to the branches to an MPLS network. Here's our problem: I can no longer see the PC's at remote locations via Net... 2 13.07.2007 02:18:20 lan lights at the back of the CPU what do the orange and green lights at the back of the cpu by the lan mean. if the the orange light alone is showing what does this suggest.... 3 12.07.2007 20:28:07 Can share drives but they can't be accessed We have a small home network, 4 computers, running XP Professional. We can share all drives across the network but we can not access those ‘shared’ drives. No error message is displayed, rather when you click on a shared drive nothing happens. The computer emits a beep sound – the same sound when you get when you make an error. When we create a PGP file off of a drive which can not be... 3 12.07.2007 17:31:53 EML extension and Outlook Express OK, an elderly friend of mine and I are having this same problem. I read the dozen references to eml and while vaguely similar, not the same and only half of them were answered anyway. Here is the problem. We receive either and email or an attachment that has an eml extension and we can't get them to open properly. I can read the html but thats it. I can click on "download" and the windo... 2 12.07.2007 11:40:03 Cannot access administrative share from other workgroup computer I have a small network set up in my home. I was trying to access the administrative share on computer2 from computer1 today and could not. The funny thing is that I frequently access the administrative share on computer1 from computer2. Go figure. Both computers are running XP pro. On computer1 when I press Start then Run I am typing: \\computer2\c$ After hesitating a few moments I g... 2 12.07.2007 09:50:34 dhcp not working on lan or wireless I have a notebook when i try to connect to the lan via dhcp it fails but if i use a static ip it works fine. i have several machines on the network and they are working fine /release /renew when i use dhcp on this notebook it doesnt even try to go off and get an ip it just says straight away limited i think its a winsock error is there anyway of resetting winsock for this machine... 2 12.07.2007 09:49:23 Can I automatically cache Windows Update on my local network I have recently kicked the tyres on ubuntu linux and am immediately impressed by the ease with which apt-cacher was setup to locally cache the many and varied optional software packages and package updates. This is a huge bandwidth saving on my broadband connection which is also utilized for VOIP telephony. My monopolistic Australian ISP is infamous for metering downloaded data and imp... 1 12.07.2007 07:24:02 Network Adapters problem My OS is Windows XP service pack 2. The computer is Dell 4700c. I had been having a problem connecting to the net. I contacted my isp who directed me to Dell who sent me back to the isp. Apparently the IP address was the culprit. The isp sent some kind of signal to the modem and a new IP address appeared and the net again was accessible. I just did a scan using the Network Diagnostics i... 3 12.07.2007 02:46:03 Is it possible? What do I need? Hi -- I'm not too network saavy but have managed to put together a wired network which has functioned for a few years. My current Internet connection is wired DSL with a Westell 2200 router from Bellsouth. I'd like to be able to have my notebook computer able to access the network from downstairs in the house. Obviously, a long, long cable is not the way to do it. Is there someway t... 4 12.07.2007 01:53:53 Mapping A Drive on a Local Network? I have a local Network that allows my laptop to access folders/files on one of my drive (I have one drive with 3 partitions). A couple of days ago, I had major problems and had to reformat my C drive and reinstall WinXP. Most things are working ok now except I can't seem to correctly Map my E drive to Z so it can be accessed by my laptop. The laptop is already set to access it on Z, the E d... 3 11.07.2007 18:48:36 Dead Horse Topic I'm certian this topic has been beat to death but right now I feel the same way. I have a home network (workgroup) with 2 Windows 2000 Pro and one XP Pro machines with static IPs connected thru a Linksys router. All W2k machines can see folder and printer shares on other W2k machines. The XP machine can see folder and printer shares on other W2k machines. No W2k machine can see folder shar... 4 11.07.2007 14:08:40 Adding WinXp to Win2003 AD - Error "...no more endpoints available..." Hello, I have a Win2003 DC, installed from scratch, i've done dcpromo and also installed Exchange2003, i did the "setup.exe /forestprep" "setup.exe /domainprep", and setup of the Exchange2003 server, it all went well. I also have Dns Server installed up and running. "dcdiag" and "netdiag" reports no problem, everything seems to be fine. I've created a user and mailbox, for testing. ... 1 11.07.2007 14:03:03 34 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>