December 12th 03, 07:11 PM
Phillip: What an interesting problem. I am certianly no
expert,so take it with a grain of salt. Do you ever shut
down your network? Try this first. You say you run with
no firewall. You do know you can run a firewall with
minimal invasive ops. I personally cannot imagine
exposing a network to the net w/o an electronic condum.
Hopefully you at least have an antivirus setup to scan
all downloads before they hit your net. What are you
doing that you think an AV and firewall are going to slow
you down? I run my system on stealth mode. Think about
this before your entire network is corrupted: because
then, you'll damn sure shut it down.
>-----Original Message-----
>Please take the time to read this message, it means alot
>to me and if you can help me i will be more than
grateful.
>I have a Home network. The Host ocmputer of the network
>connects to Comcast Cable modem high speed internet. On
>both client computer, lately, there have been some
>problems. Usually in the beginning of the day they
>internet will work great on the host computer and the
>client computers, with speeds of 1500 kb/s each.
>Although we currently do not have any firewall programs,
>the LAN acts as if it does. If a client computer makes
>too many connections via the internet, the host computer
>will emmediately stop sharing its internet with that
>computer, and very often both computers! Examples of
>when this happens (all actions on client computers) : I
>send files via MSN messanger, download from too many
>people with kazaa or from a website, refresh the server
>list for halflife, and occassionally while playing
>warcraft 3 on battlenet. i know for a fact doing these
>things causes the problem. for instance, with kazaa, if
i
>download from too many different users at one time, the
>internet can not work again until i disconnect from
>kazaa. Once that is complete, i can disable, and the re-
>enable the connection. But after this, if i turn kazaa
on
>again, without downloading ANYTHING, the internet
>automatically shuts off emmidiately. During the time
>that a client computer has no internet, it has NO access
>to the network, which means the other client computer,
>and the host. Wether the host computer is logged in or
>not does not change anything, so this rules out any
>firewall software, trojans, or viruses. Also the client
>computers are not running anything like this either, as
>the problem still occurs when the only programs running
>in task manager that is not under the SYSTEM category is
>called EXPLORER, and whatever 1 other program i am using
>(msn messanger, kazaa, ect...). I am also certain that
>this has nothing to do with comcast, as i have already
>contacted them. The only thing i could think of is
maybe
>in an Automatic Windows Update there was some sort of
>firewall protection. But i do not think this is likely,
>nor do i know where to find information on this. If
>anyone can help me at all please post! i can use all the
>help u can think of even if ur not sure its correct.
>Maybe all u have is a simple suggestion or a "maybe its
>this". I hope i didnt leave out any needed information,
>or spam u with annoying unwanted information. Thank you
>for taking the time to read this.
>.
>
expert,so take it with a grain of salt. Do you ever shut
down your network? Try this first. You say you run with
no firewall. You do know you can run a firewall with
minimal invasive ops. I personally cannot imagine
exposing a network to the net w/o an electronic condum.
Hopefully you at least have an antivirus setup to scan
all downloads before they hit your net. What are you
doing that you think an AV and firewall are going to slow
you down? I run my system on stealth mode. Think about
this before your entire network is corrupted: because
then, you'll damn sure shut it down.
>-----Original Message-----
>Please take the time to read this message, it means alot
>to me and if you can help me i will be more than
grateful.
>I have a Home network. The Host ocmputer of the network
>connects to Comcast Cable modem high speed internet. On
>both client computer, lately, there have been some
>problems. Usually in the beginning of the day they
>internet will work great on the host computer and the
>client computers, with speeds of 1500 kb/s each.
>Although we currently do not have any firewall programs,
>the LAN acts as if it does. If a client computer makes
>too many connections via the internet, the host computer
>will emmediately stop sharing its internet with that
>computer, and very often both computers! Examples of
>when this happens (all actions on client computers) : I
>send files via MSN messanger, download from too many
>people with kazaa or from a website, refresh the server
>list for halflife, and occassionally while playing
>warcraft 3 on battlenet. i know for a fact doing these
>things causes the problem. for instance, with kazaa, if
i
>download from too many different users at one time, the
>internet can not work again until i disconnect from
>kazaa. Once that is complete, i can disable, and the re-
>enable the connection. But after this, if i turn kazaa
on
>again, without downloading ANYTHING, the internet
>automatically shuts off emmidiately. During the time
>that a client computer has no internet, it has NO access
>to the network, which means the other client computer,
>and the host. Wether the host computer is logged in or
>not does not change anything, so this rules out any
>firewall software, trojans, or viruses. Also the client
>computers are not running anything like this either, as
>the problem still occurs when the only programs running
>in task manager that is not under the SYSTEM category is
>called EXPLORER, and whatever 1 other program i am using
>(msn messanger, kazaa, ect...). I am also certain that
>this has nothing to do with comcast, as i have already
>contacted them. The only thing i could think of is
maybe
>in an Automatic Windows Update there was some sort of
>firewall protection. But i do not think this is likely,
>nor do i know where to find information on this. If
>anyone can help me at all please post! i can use all the
>help u can think of even if ur not sure its correct.
>Maybe all u have is a simple suggestion or a "maybe its
>this". I hope i didnt leave out any needed information,
>or spam u with annoying unwanted information. Thank you
>for taking the time to read this.
>.
>