Have two computers
One keeps the wireless connection alive when logging off
THe other drops the connection when logging off.
There must be a windows setting as the broadband properties are the same.

Can someone connect to my PC by remote and test it?  The IP is: 192.168.1.3
Bellsoutth offered a free Westell DSL Modem and CompUSA had a Netgear
Wireless Router for $10 after Rebate then you connect the 3 Ethernet LAN
Cable and away you go - connectiing.

Is there a way of setting the Draytek 2820 router so that it announces its
current external IP address to services such as DynDNS?
I want to set up a teleworker vpn on a dynamic broadband connection
Thanks

On a Windows XP laptop, I can't make a PPTP connection for ten
minutes after restarting. Internet Explorer is working fine during that
time; the network icon appears almost right away in the system tray. All of
a sudden, after about ten minutes, without doing anything else, the PPTP

I service & monitor customer systems using the Windows VPN client in a
LAN-to-LAN situation. When the VPN connection is established and
I start IE it accesses the web through the customer VPN connection instead
of my own LAN to internet connection. IE is set to Never Dial a ...

First of all your help is greatly appreciated
XP SP3 Fully patched laptop (PC1)
XP SP3 Fully patched desktop (PC2)
I can create an RDC to the PC2 when I bring the laptop to work and plug in

I have come up against something that has me stumped.  
When I try to use the remote desktop client on any PC in the network to
connect to (abc machine) which is also an XP Pro box (fully patched).  I
enter the name of the machine click connect and the box blinks for a

I am unable to connect to one of my computers (PC1) within a local network.
All the other computers within the network is able to connect to each other
and even the problematic computer is able to connect to other computers via
RDC, it just won't accept connections.

by which command can a LAN or Wireless network connection be activated or
deactivated?
Thomas Wiedmann

Hi,
I'm having a problem logging into a remote machine (XP) using RDC. I can
connect to the machine but when I get to the login screen it keeps saying
that the system can't log me on and to check my username and password.

I have this problem only with one pc, that is new, a Dell Workstation with
xp pro 32 bit
When I log on with remote desktop, after I write the password and push logon
button, the logon windows became grayed and the pc stop responding from

Two systems often fail RDP connections.
1. With one host often, not always, I get the logon box and logon and
it disappears and I get the color of the desktop but no icons and
can't do anything. It stays like that till I close the connection.