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I hope someone out there can help me as my frustration level is rising....
I have a Gateway PC running XP Media Center and a Compaq Presario R3000
Notebook running XP Professional. Up until last week I had a small home
network set up using a Microsoft router. The PC is hard wired and the
Notebook is running wirelessly. Last week I changed to a linksys Wireless G
router (WRTS54Gv2) with a high gain antenna to get better wireless coverage
in the house. Now my little network is worthless. Both PCs can access the
internet but they can't see each other. I have set up a totally new home
network with a new workgroup name. Sometimes the workgroup appears and
sometimes it doesn't. I have pinged the computers from each other and they
both respond. I have McAfee Personal Firewall on the Desktop and Norton on
the Notebook. I would think this might be the problem but the same thing
happens when the firewalls are disabled on both computers. The kicker is that
every now and then you can see the workgroup and it works fine and then with
no warning you start getting the can't access workgroup message.
Please help me before I throw one of these things out of the window.
I have a Gateway PC running XP Media Center and a Compaq Presario R3000
Notebook running XP Professional. Up until last week I had a small home
network set up using a Microsoft router. The PC is hard wired and the
Notebook is running wirelessly. Last week I changed to a linksys Wireless G
router (WRTS54Gv2) with a high gain antenna to get better wireless coverage
in the house. Now my little network is worthless. Both PCs can access the
internet but they can't see each other. I have set up a totally new home
network with a new workgroup name. Sometimes the workgroup appears and
sometimes it doesn't. I have pinged the computers from each other and they
both respond. I have McAfee Personal Firewall on the Desktop and Norton on
the Notebook. I would think this might be the problem but the same thing
happens when the firewalls are disabled on both computers. The kicker is that
every now and then you can see the workgroup and it works fine and then with
no warning you start getting the can't access workgroup message.
Please help me before I throw one of these things out of the window.