I have a desktop (XP home) and laptop (XP home) networked with a crossover cable and can access the internet from both only when I exit Zonealarm (free version). I have been told that this is a problem if you use ZA freeware version, but is not a problem if you are running ZA Pro. Any knowledge or experiences with regards to this would be appreciated. TIA Rich

I need to change the VPI, VCI and Encap settings for my DSL Modem/Router, how can I do this bearing in mind it is curredntly set to BT and I can't go to the web page it says to change it because I'm on Kingston Comms phone lines. Is there anywhere I can change on my PC? TIA --

I'm sure some of some you have been in the same situation .... meeting room ..... one company LAN connection ...... 7 or 8 people with laptops, all hoping to sync their e-mail before the meeting starts. What I'm after is a small, light Ethernet hub (10Mb is fine) that has 5-8 ports and preferably powered from a USB port on one of the laptops .... I have found the sort of thing I'm looking for...

You don't say which OS you are using, however.... When you have a home network with automatic DNS/IP adresses, one of the PCs is acting as a server of IP addresses - in your case it sounds like PC1 is doing this. Thus when you switch on PC2 alone, it flounders as it has nowhere to go to get its "automatic" address. Try switching to manual settings. Tell both PCs the DNS settings for your ISP...

"leo" wrote in message ... I would be grateful for any recommendations for equipment (as long as it's not Netgear). What I want is the following .. one decent ADSL modem, plus a router which includes a firewall and a print server. I have had major problems trying to get the Netgear FR114P to work and spent a great deal of...

help please with above how to set up a network (laptop WINXP home - PC Win98SE) connection is by means of crossover cable from ethernet to ethernet card. please note my laptop does not have a floppy drive!! thx for detailed explanations.

danieluk said this... Won't actually do it in case I'm not allowed! If not which newsgroup would be suitable? i suggest you try uk.adverts.computer that's on-topic and quite a busy group. -- º~ dªv¡d ~º

MAC addresses don't generally change unless you reassign the address to clone a NIC to a router. Are you sure you don't mean dynamically- allocated IP address? yes im sure, i have to change the mac address in my router to '00:26:54:0a:c4:10' to get it to work. If i click on the 'Clone MAC Address' button it comes up with an address and it stops my internet connection working.

"leo" wrote in message ... I would be grateful for any recommendations for equipment (as long as it's not Netgear). What I want is the following .. one decent ADSL modem, plus a router which includes a firewall and a print server. I have had major problems trying to get the Netgear FR114P to work and spent a great deal of...

"Steve Walker" wrote: Trying to break into a Cisco 801 Router to overwrite passwords left by previous administrator, and having little joy. Can open session, but can't interrupt boot sequence of firmware. Through googling, discover that Hyperterminal in NT & 2K is generally incapable of sending the break signal required to prevent boot. Had been trying for an...

Does anyone know of a packet sniffer than I can use in my home network that will detect my Xbox ?? Thanks Pleb

Hi, I have a 2 PC network (both Win 2k), which works fine as far as file and printer share, but the Internet connection sharing won't work. The second NIC in the main PC does not pick up a default gateway when internet connection sharing is checked. - Any ideas? Mike

Hi, My sister-in-law was telling me all about the junk email they get. This is a big problem as they have four children and their parents have to filter out all the spam email they get before letting them onto the computer. I think there maybe a wider issue though of preventing the kids from accessing sites they should not. Are there software packages out there that will restrict the sites they...

I don't know if your router supports it but try changing the IP addressing on it. I.E. Change all the IPs on the router to 192.168.1.x. This will mean the router is at http://192.168.1.1 and the modem at http://192.168.0.1. I don't have your router so unfortnately can't help. Khyle - W "gappy" wrote in message ... Is this...

Why cant I see my win 95 machine from my xp machine I can see the other way by setting up a mapped drive but not from neighbourhood network. Thanks Chris

Herbert wrote: Ok, I've actually figured out quite a lot about PCs, but networking still looks like knitting instructions to me. Alllllll I want to do is to connect two PCs, for filesharing at least, and both to an ADSL router. The last bit was easy: an ethernet card each and a cat5 cable from each to the router. I understand tables are not crossover, whereas hooking up two...

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:16:12 +0100, Herbert wrote: Ok, I've actually figured out quite a lot about PCs, but networking still looks like knitting instructions to me. Alllllll I want to do is to connect two PCs, for filesharing at least, and both to an ADSL router. The last bit was easy: an ethernet card each and a cat5 cable from each to the router.

Two computers set up as follows Ntl Broadband (USB)---WXP Pro---W98---Printer Everything hunky dory on WXP box. But W98 has a problem with the internet connection sharing. It doesn't work. The computer's giving it an IP of 169.254.xxx.xxx, with the common network settings of "assign IP automatically, disable DNS, disable WINS resolution". When I specify an IP of 198.162.0.2, file sharing works,...

I've just spent a few hours installing my first network, adding a Linksys 54g wireless router to share my Blueyonder BB connection. I've installed a wireless card in my Win XP machine downstairs and it found the network and allowed me to access the net straight away after rebooting. My parents machine is running Win 98se though and after putting the card in I don't know what I need to change in...

Have just set up a 9 PC network. 8 on wireless and 1 connected directly to the wireless router. Everything was working fine, all pc's appeared in network neighbourhood, could share files/printers. I set up a mapped drive on each of the wireless machines (n:\) to point at a directory on the wired machine, all went well. It worked for about a week, then 2 wireless machines decided they could only