XP SP2. Internet down after 1 or 2 hours.

[Gaston Pierini]

Hi,

I installed XP pro w/sp2 yesterday, and it was all great.
But problems came today. I came back from univ. to find
that I wasn't able to browse any web, and my msn was dawn
also. I tried using ping on many sites, but got "request
timed out" many times (75% loss almost all the time, if
not, 100%). I'm always rebooting the system so as to be
able to surf the web again. The weird thing is I have p2p
programs running 24/7 and they keep on transfering files
without getting disconnected. Obviously I have internet
access.
When I do have access to webs, the connection is REALLY
slow (Cable 512k). Xp firewall is disabled, I'm using
Norton Internet Security professional 2004 instead.

I know this "time out" thing is very common.. but even
though I searched for several mins, I could not find
anything that could be of help.

Thx in advance.

 

[Quaoar]

Hi,

I installed XP pro w/sp2 yesterday, and it was all great.
But problems came today. I came back from univ. to find
that I wasn't able to browse any web, and my msn was dawn
also. I tried using ping on many sites, but got "request
timed out" many times (75% loss almost all the time, if
not, 100%). I'm always rebooting the system so as to be
able to surf the web again. The weird thing is I have p2p
programs running 24/7 and they keep on transfering files
without getting disconnected. Obviously I have internet
access.
When I do have access to webs, the connection is REALLY
slow (Cable 512k). Xp firewall is disabled, I'm using
Norton Internet Security professional 2004 instead.

I know this "time out" thing is very common.. but even
though I searched for several mins, I could not find
anything that could be of help.

Thx in advance.

Time to stop the P2P, run disk cleanup, defrag, check viruses, spybot
and ad-aware for malware. You don't say your connection type. On cable
internet, your upload rate can saturate the connection so that you
cannot sustain a download, or the combo is saturating the entire
connection. Until P2P is stopped, diagnosing a slow connection is, IMO,
impossible.

Q

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


Time to stop the P2P, run disk cleanup, defrag, check viruses, spybot
and ad-aware for malware. You don't say your connection type. On cable
internet, your upload rate can saturate the connection so that you
cannot sustain a download, or the combo is saturating the entire
connection. Until P2P is stopped, diagnosing a slow connection is, IMO,
impossible.

Q


.

Stopping p2p won't solve the problem. Why? Simple, here
in Argentina ISP are really bad, and users here just
can't use all of their bandwiths. I always upload at
10k/s, so there is no way that my UL rate was saturating
my connection. And regarding to the viruses, defrag and
all that, I'm virus free, spyware free, malware free. I
said before my connection was Cablemodem 512/128. I just
got up to find I was unable to browse... again, msn down
as usual. But kazaa and emule were up and running.
Bitorrent was down.

Gaston

 

[Lance]

(e-mail address removed) thought carefully and wrote on
8/14/2004 7:06 AM:

Stopping p2p won't solve the problem. Why? Simple, here
in Argentina ISP are really bad, and users here just
can't use all of their bandwiths. I always upload at
10k/s, so there is no way that my UL rate was saturating
my connection. And regarding to the viruses, defrag and
all that, I'm virus free, spyware free, malware free. I
said before my connection was Cablemodem 512/128. I just
got up to find I was unable to browse... again, msn down
as usual. But kazaa and emule were up and running.
Bitorrent was down.

Gaston

Service Pack 2 does change the way networking works and may have broken
your networking software.

I don't have specific solutions for your problems, my approach would be
the following:

1. Turn off all your messengers and p2p software. See if that fixes
things.
2. Visit user forums or help sites for each software and see if
anyone else has similar problems (they probably do).
3. Update all messenger and p2p software to the latest version.

Good luck,

Lance
*****

 

[Guest]

Service Pack 2 does change the way networking works and
may have broken

your networking software.

I don't have specific solutions for your problems, my approach would be
the following:

1. Turn off all your messengers and p2p software. See if that fixes
things.
2. Visit user forums or help sites for each software and see if
anyone else has similar problems (they probably do).
3. Update all messenger and p2p software to the latest version.

Good luck,

Lance
*****
.

Lance,
what I did was install XP from zero with a booteable cd
w/sp2 included.
All my soft is up to date, so I don't see how that can't
affect me.

 

[Lance]

(e-mail address removed) thought carefully and wrote on
8/14/2004 7:52 AM:

latest version.



Lance, what I did was install XP from zero with a booteable cd w/sp2
included. All my soft is up to date, so I don't see how that can't
affect me.

Service Pack 2 will change the way some networking software works - no
way around it.

Lance
*****

Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=884130

Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service
Pack 2:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842242

 

[Guest]

First of all, thx for the data.
I read it carefully, but found only 2 programs that may
not be workin appropriately: Style xp , and MSN.

But that wouldn't justify IE 6 from stop working..

 

[Lance]

OK. Suit yourself.

Lance
*****

(e-mail address removed) thought carefully and wrote on
8/14/2004 8:52 AM:

 

[Gaston]

Huh? I don't get it.

-----Original Message-----
OK. Suit yourself.

Lance
*****

(e-mail address removed) thought carefully and wrote on
8/14/2004 8:52 AM:

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