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Kolin Tregaskes
I am having the following problems and feel they must be connected:
- P2P transfers are slow, though not too worried about this
- Streaming audio does not work (possible just WMP, I have tested the
connection via RealPlayer and it thought I was not connected to the
Internet, but eventually got it working). When I try and listen to xfm
radio the box just says Connecting to media... and that's as far as it goes
- Port forwarding seems to make no difference or have no affect (see details
below), so I cannot connect to Steam (Half-Life 2) at all thus cannot play
the game.
- Pluck doesn't seem to update the feeds, WinRSS does not update and
IntraNews doesn't work (RSS readers).
- Windows Update will not download anything
The last point is the most worrying as there are vital updates that required
to be downloaded and as it can't check it automatically I have to manually
find the updates and download them when I remember to do so.
I have a wireless router (D-Link DSL-604+) and have port forwarded ports for
P2P and Steam. I have also set up computer as the DMZ (though not sure
whether they would have made any difference if things were working anyway,
should I do this?). I don't have the firewall enabled on the router as I
have ZoneAlarm Pro 5 installed (with McAfee VirusScan Pro 8). I have opened
the same ports within ZoneAlarm, but no change at all.
I have gone back and forth with Microsoft and there have not come up with a
solution as yet. I am running SP2 and thinking about installing Windows
from scratch (which would be a huge pain).
Sorry if I've missed out some info. Any ideas?
Kol
- P2P transfers are slow, though not too worried about this
- Streaming audio does not work (possible just WMP, I have tested the
connection via RealPlayer and it thought I was not connected to the
Internet, but eventually got it working). When I try and listen to xfm
radio the box just says Connecting to media... and that's as far as it goes
- Port forwarding seems to make no difference or have no affect (see details
below), so I cannot connect to Steam (Half-Life 2) at all thus cannot play
the game.
- Pluck doesn't seem to update the feeds, WinRSS does not update and
IntraNews doesn't work (RSS readers).
- Windows Update will not download anything
The last point is the most worrying as there are vital updates that required
to be downloaded and as it can't check it automatically I have to manually
find the updates and download them when I remember to do so.
I have a wireless router (D-Link DSL-604+) and have port forwarded ports for
P2P and Steam. I have also set up computer as the DMZ (though not sure
whether they would have made any difference if things were working anyway,
should I do this?). I don't have the firewall enabled on the router as I
have ZoneAlarm Pro 5 installed (with McAfee VirusScan Pro 8). I have opened
the same ports within ZoneAlarm, but no change at all.
I have gone back and forth with Microsoft and there have not come up with a
solution as yet. I am running SP2 and thinking about installing Windows
from scratch (which would be a huge pain).
Sorry if I've missed out some info. Any ideas?
Kol