Grumpy said:
Thanks Andrew E, yes I am on cable 8Mbps max.
I have internet connection working, but just lost my PC's private IP
address when I used CurrPorts to disable the Port and TCP service that it
was running on.
Sounds like you didn't know what the software did or how to use it. Maybe
you farked over the TCP settings and need to reset them:
netsh int ip reset c:\ipreset.log
and since you later mention Teredo (for IPv6):
netsh int ipv6 reset
I don't see anything in the description of CurrPorts
(
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html) that indicates it does any
reconfiguration of NT services for networking. It lets you close ports and
kill the processes that own them, but that is similar to killing a process
in Task Manager. That doesn't stop the service from running after a reboot
which ends up reloading the service. Obviously you could shoot yourself in
your own foot if you kill the wrong processes (and their ports) but that
doesn't do anything on what gets loaded on Windows startup as those
processes will get loaded again.
Have you yet gone into your NAT router, if you have one, to check its DHCP
server and see what actions it permits, like releasing an IP address to a
particular host and reassigning a new one? Have you tried do a release and
renew of the IP address that that router itself gets (from your ISP)? If it
can't connect then the router gets an APIPA address, but your hosts on the
LAN side of your router should still be getting their IP addresses from your
router's DHCP server.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved
169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 for Automatic Private IP Addressing. You say
that you are getting 192.168.x.x addresses assigned to your intranetwork
hosts. Well, those aren't APIPA addresses but IP addresses assigned by your
router's DHCP server.
Thanks Vanguard did, release, flushdns, renew
I think that did somethink, but I did not get back my PC's private server
IP
address, the IP the homeLAN uses, maybe I should just set up homeLAN
again,
maybe the system will open a new port for the service automatically.
So what IP address *did* you get? APIPA addresses are useless to connect
anywhere except within your own intranetwork. Whose DHCP server are you
using? Your ISP's or your NAT router's?
By the way C:/ipconfig/... shows that I have somethink called "Tunnel
adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface" running also, several of them.
Anyone ever heard of them, I will "Google" search them.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/teredo.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817778
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/evaluate/ipv6_teredo.mspx
I have SP-2 for Windows XP (which has Teredo enabled by default for that
service pack) and I don't see anything about "Teredo" in the output of
ipconfig. However, I don't bother with wireless networks and devices and
then have to figure out how to secure them with 3rd party "HomeLAN"
software. Of course, we don't know anything about your network setup:
computer connected to dsl/cable modem, or a NAT router between, what other
hosts are on your intranetwork, etc.
This is all too technical for me, I may just go and buy cheap second hand
PC, and throw this one out.
Problem is not with the hardware (unless it is really old and just doesn't
have the horsepower to handle the OS and every process you load
concurrently, but then the networking problem is not a hardware problem).
Problem may be with the OS or other loaded software but apparently "user
modification" has corrupted it.
PEBCAK
By the way my usual reboot take 15mins, 7 mins to shut down and 8 mins to
start up again, is that slow or about normal.
Depends on your memory size, disk fragmentation, disk speed, processor
speed, other hardware factors along with how much crap, er, fluff you are
loading on Windows startup.
I hope Vista is quicker or I may try Mac or Linux for my next PC, or buy a
blackboard and packet of chalk.
Why would going to the next version of Windows infuse any more expertise in
you? Changing to another operating system won't change your level of
expertise, either. If you don't want to use a general-purpose operating
system then get a single-purpose embedded OS, like an iPod, calculator, cell
phone, etc.
Microsoft the problem with PC OS's is, unlike cars, where most people can
drive then ok without knowing how the engine works, with PC's this does
not
appear to be the case.
Computers are not washing machines. Computers are not appliances. A
general-purpose computer is adaptable and configurable, unlike your car or
washing machine. Obviously if you don't train yourself on the device,
you'll never record the outgoing message for your answering machine (and
which is NOT the same for every answering machine device), get your DVD or
VCR player to stop flashing "12 noon" (and how to configure each is
DIFFERENT for every brand and model), or save common phone numbers in your
cell phone (and each brand and model uses a DIFFERENT procedure to record
the numbers).
"..., unlike cars, where most people can drive them ok ..."
You want to see how many people show up at a car dealer shop that haven't a
clue how to use a manual transmission? Do you think the controls for the
AM/FM/DVD radio player are the same in every car? I know owners that have
had their car for over a year and still don't know where is the hazard
flasher button or what the Manual button does, if it exists, on their auto
tranny shifter. Cars are not a general-purpose conveyance. You don't buy a
Geo and expect to tow a huge boat or use it as a bobcat.
I just want an automatic PC that goes, I have no interest in learning how
the PC's engine works !
Don't use a general-purpose computer. Get an iPod for your music, or an
Xbox for your games, a fax machine for faxing, a PDA for e-mail and notes,
etc.
And you won't be happy with any other OS, either. It's not the fault of the
software that you told it to do what you told it to do. You really want it
*not* to do what you tell it to do?
