I am using PPPeE to connect to ISP. If I connect my PC's NIC directly
to the ISPs network, it authenticates fine and all works well. If
however, I configure my router to use PPPoE and connect the ISP's
network cable to the WAN port of my router, i have authentication

I have given two pcs the workgroup name 'network'. I restarted each machine
and then connected them via firewire. I go to network places on each pc, but
can't see the other machine. However, on PC A, I can see that PC; on PC B, I
can see that PC. I just can't see PC A on PC B, ...

Recently I started to use this function on my XP home, broadband
desktop. Lately, I noticed after each time I 'awake' it, most of the
times I find that my browsers are either sluggish or not responding. It
seems that I have to reboot and then all is well. Maybe this is the

Hi, I live in the country in Australia and have a satellite
connection.
At exactly 12 minutes to the hour (every hour) I am disconnected from
the net. At exactly 10 minutes to the hour the service reconnects. As

I have 3 computers in a home network, all running XP home. They are connected
via ethernet to a switch. The switch is connected to a router. The router
connects to my cable modem.
All 3 computers can use the internet separately. I can play games on my

I have two, wired network computers:  An Office and a Loft.  The office
computer came with XP Home, the Loft computer has XP Pro.
The network is a classic design:  Modem; Firewall/Router/Switch/Access
Point; both computers are wired to the router.

I have a laptop running Win XP SP2. I have the folowing problem:
I have a VPN set up so that I can connect to my departmental network
from home and other locations. My home connection is through an ADSL
modem/router. I also use the laptop at another office location where

I have a PC im building that will need to do the following and not sure how
to configure or if possilbe.
This PC will be tied to a xray machine that must be shared by two seperate
doctor networks and software.  It has a special optical card so a switch of

On a fresh new installed win xp sp2, I can not download
any .exe and .doc files: when I try, sometimes the connection
starts downloanding and stops shortly after, sometimes
It does not start. It's quite unpredictable.

i hahe a peer to peer network running microsoft windows xp 2006 sp
2 ,win 2000 but some computyers cant connect to the network its giving
an error massage that no more conection can be made to the computer
that in acting as the server with shared foldre .what is the problem

Ok let me give a list of PC's first to simplify:
1.  Apple Mac Mini - Wired
2.  HP Laptop - Windows XP Home SP2 - Wireless
3.  HP Desktop - Vista Ultimate - Wireless

Will the Internet connection sharing work If I connect to internet via a GSM
modem connected to the computers USB? Where I live my options are 56k modem
or GSM (cell phone network). GSM gives 348k so would prefer that, however I
also want to share the connection. The helpfunction ...

I have a laptop running Win XP SP2. I have the folowing problem:
I have a VPN set up so that I can connect to my departmental network
from home and other locations. My home connection is through an ADSL
modem/router. I also use the laptop at another office location where I

I have a home network with four computers all under WinXP SP2. All computers
are connected through the NetComm NB5Plus4 modem-router. Any computer can
look into another one and in the Internet. And all this works perfectly.
But when I have started one computer from under a boot ...

I have two WinXP boxes configured on a network with a linksys router.  Both
can see the internet.  Both are configured to use a workgroup, TORGROT.  
First computer Helga can see Ralph, but Ralph can't see Helga.  Helga can use
shared files and printers, but Ralph can't see ...