internet connection trouble

[budi]

hello,

i'm connected to the internet by Dial up service, my
network just workgroup, not using a domain,
if i'm not sharing my internet connection, the connection
is okey. but if i'm enabling ICS, the sent byte is
increasing uncontrolled.. and make the internet connection
very slow (can't open single page)
although no computer in the network accessing internet, but
everytime i'm enabled ICS the same prob happen..

is my computer infected by a virus or what?

 

[Keith]

Your problem sounds like mine. I'm stuck too. My email
works well but IE is incredibly slow.Please let me know if
you solve it. Thanks

 

[Chuck]

hello,

i'm connected to the internet by Dial up service, my
network just workgroup, not using a domain,
if i'm not sharing my internet connection, the connection
is okey. but if i'm enabling ICS, the sent byte is
increasing uncontrolled.. and make the internet connection
very slow (can't open single page)
although no computer in the network accessing internet, but
everytime i'm enabled ICS the same prob happen..

is my computer infected by a virus or what?

It could be a virus. Can you connect to the internet without ICS, just to test
your host?

It's probably just ICS (and your firewall) sucking down CPU cycles. Filtering
packets, then routing them as necessary to another computer, isn't free. It
takes CPU cycles.

Is your dialup service PPP compatible? Get a router that supports a PPP modem,
and a good quality external modem.

Get the modem out of your computer. In addition to saving you CPU cycles (which
will be handled by the routers CPU), you'll eliminate any possibility of a modem
hijack. Modem hijacks still go on, costing many victims thousands of dollars
(or a huge fight with their phone company).

A router / modem isn't cheap - it could run $100 - $200. But the cost is
recoverable - the router / modem will work with your next computer. And the one
after that. And if you get broadband, it will still work. You can even make
the router use dialup as a backup, automatically, when broadband goes out.

And please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining
viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit
safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the
internet - read this article.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.