Trying to get a new Win 98SE setup on a laptop (IBM Thinkpad T41) to see
the internet, to no avail. Here's the setup:
Laptop is connected via wire to Buffalo Air station (I think it is a
wireless router, three computers are connected to it). The Air station

At one time there was a web site "Shields Up" that would test your computer
for stealth.  This URL does not work now.
Anyone know of another URL or program that can check for stealth ?
Thanks

Hi chaps,
Am enthused my win98se setup and router all seem to be working nicely with
great thanks to James Egan for his patience with my fuddy duddy diagnosis
methods  :)

I have a PC with Win98SE connected to three printers -- all of which
work.
However, my networked PC running Win XP Pro can only see and print to
one of them (a HP 820Cse on LPT2). It's printer dialog listbox does

Friend of mine hooked up with Cogeco cable internet.  Tech guy "installed"
modem and configured pc.  Later, my friend decided to add a router to
connect a second pc.  1st pc works fine.  Router works fine.  2nd pc can't
connect to internet. Everything looks fine with ipconfig/all.  ...

What is Netstat Command used for ???  It seems to be running on my Win98SE.
It shows up as a runing app in my ZoneAlarm Firewall.  I doubled click
netstat.exe by mistake and now I think it is running all the time. I do have
a router setup for networking my Win98FE and Win98SE which ...

I have a fairly old computer (purchased in 1999) and last week it
started exhibiting some strange problems, i.e., there were pale blue
pinstripes all over the desktop and then after a while it would go past
the Dell and the Windows logo, but it would have a black screen instead

Hullo all,
Have had win98se with ICS working fine for a couple of years at least but
since a reinstall/re-enable of ICS it has been acting a bit weird...
a.  DHCP wont work anymore for the client computer

I have a Windows98 machine on a home network that includes another 98 plus
two WindowsXPs.  However this particular 98 machine does not show other
computers on Network Neighborhood most times. When I use a utility to have
it scan IP addresses, it displays all the other computers, ...

There are times when I know other computers (for example my XP laptop) on
my home network can see my windows98 SE computer, because I can dbl-click
on My Network Places then dbl-click say the Sharedocs icon for the
Windows98 machine and see all the files in Sharedocs.  However, ...