No internet connection over network

[Guest]

Morning,
i have 4 computers networked with the host computer connected to internet
via satellite and ISDN. All are running XP Pro SP2. The network wizard was
used to setup all, workgroup names are all the same, however 2 of the client
machines cannot connect to the internet despite the connection notification
for both the LAN and connection showing everything is connected. The google
search page appears, but after that, nothing, it seems as though it is
searching. nortons (only on one of the 2 machines not playing the game)
Liveupdate gives up after a while. There are no problems with file sharing.
Any thoughts that may help?

Thanks
Mick

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Morning,
i have 4 computers networked with the host computer connected to internet
via satellite and ISDN. All are running XP Pro SP2. The network wizard was
used to setup all, workgroup names are all the same, however 2 of the client
machines cannot connect to the internet despite the connection notification
for both the LAN and connection showing everything is connected. The google
search page appears, but after that, nothing, it seems as though it is
searching. nortons (only on one of the 2 machines not playing the game)
Liveupdate gives up after a while. There are no problems with file sharing.
Any thoughts that may help?

Thanks
Mick

There could be an MTU problem on those two machines. Find the right
MTU setting, as shown here:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-107

and then make the setting manually, or use DrTCP to make it:

http://www.dslreports.com/front/drtcp.html
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