"Acquiring network address" forever...

sigh...

some people believe men never landed on the moon.... and that the antivirus
companies are the ones writing the viruses...

Believe what you want, I prefer to believe fact, not fiction.

Carey

"Interrogative" wrote in message
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Sorry, you are wrong. It is a well known issue.


"Carey Holzman" wrote in message
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Not true.


"Interrogative" wrote in message
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Sorry not true. XP has been known since it first came out to be slow
attaining a network if left on auto assign for IP.


"Carey Holzman" wrote in message
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Rebuild the Winsock and ensure the DHCP and Network Location Awareness
services are running. It's not an XP issue. Thank the spyware on your
system.


Carey

"sdoboze" wrote in message
lkaboutsoftware.com...
Have the same problem here XPSP2. ATMEL chipset on a 35mw USB adapter.
Works fine on many other installations with same router and chipset.
This
one in particular, "Acquiring network address" forever. Didn't happen
under XP SP1.
Yet another wonderful microsoft 'feature'.

Sure - and some don't have a clue what they are talking about. XP *IS*
slower to attain a network if left on auto assign and THAT, at least, is a
constantly able to be proven fact.

"Carey Holzman" wrote in message
...
sigh...

some people believe men never landed on the moon.... and that the
antivirus companies are the ones writing the viruses...

Believe what you want, I prefer to believe fact, not fiction.

Carey

"Interrogative" wrote in message
...

Sorry, you are wrong. It is a well known issue.


"Carey Holzman" wrote in message
...
Not true.


"Interrogative" wrote in message
...

Sorry not true. XP has been known since it first came out to be slow
attaining a network if left on auto assign for IP.


"Carey Holzman" wrote in message
...
Rebuild the Winsock and ensure the DHCP and Network Location Awareness
services are running. It's not an XP issue. Thank the spyware on your
system.


Carey

"sdoboze" wrote in message
lkaboutsoftware.com...
Have the same problem here XPSP2. ATMEL chipset on a 35mw USB
adapter.
Works fine on many other installations with same router and chipset.
This
one in particular, "Acquiring network address" forever. Didn't happen
under XP SP1.
Yet another wonderful microsoft 'feature'.

The error you previously described was that the computer would 'take
forever' waiting to auto-assign an IP address. Of course there will be a
slight delay (only measurable with a stop watch) between a static and a
dynamic IP address being assigned. However, it is, on a properly configured
computer with properly working equipment, done in milliseconds.

This, however, was not the 'well known issue' you were referring to, but
rather, that Windows will not obtain an address through DHCP. There is no
known such issue.

Feel free to reply, however, your responses are neither factual or helpful,
so I'll be adding you to my ignore list. I'm here to help, not hinder, and
further discussion in this manner does not belong in this forum.

Carey

"Interrogative" wrote in message
...

Sure - and some don't have a clue what they are talking about. XP *IS*
slower to attain a network if left on auto assign and THAT, at least, is a
constantly able to be proven fact.

"Carey Holzman" wrote in message
...
sigh...

some people believe men never landed on the moon.... and that the
antivirus companies are the ones writing the viruses...

Believe what you want, I prefer to believe fact, not fiction.

Carey

"Interrogative" wrote in message
...

Sorry, you are wrong. It is a well known issue.


"Carey Holzman" wrote in message
...
Not true.


"Interrogative" wrote in message
...

Sorry not true. XP has been known since it first came out to be slow
attaining a network if left on auto assign for IP.


"Carey Holzman" wrote in message
...
Rebuild the Winsock and ensure the DHCP and Network Location
Awareness services are running. It's not an XP issue. Thank the
spyware on your system.


Carey

"sdoboze" wrote in message
lkaboutsoftware.com...
Have the same problem here XPSP2. ATMEL chipset on a 35mw USB
adapter.
Works fine on many other installations with same router and chipset.
This
one in particular, "Acquiring network address" forever. Didn't
happen
under XP SP1.
Yet another wonderful microsoft 'feature'.

"Carey Holzman" wrote in message
...
The error you previously described was that the computer would 'take
forever' waiting to auto-assign an IP address. Of course there will be a
slight delay (only measurable with a stop watch) between a static and a

Depends how much you consider "slight" but I have reliably timed it as
anything up to 10 minutes in a normal work situation with about 20 odd XP
machines, before the machine I was sitting in front of, finally got there. I
have repeated that with varying amounts of time, on different installations
all over the place, different sizes of networks of course. The machines,
themselves and the networking hardware were not in question as they were all
working fine. XP just has this unfortunate habit, left on auto, of taking a
long time. However, all that is solved by manual assign of IP number. It
takes less than 3 seconds on the exact same networks.



Feel free to reply, however, your responses are neither factual or
helpful,

I might say the same to you. It is a well known issue, you say different.
You arent helping anyone by continuing the unhelpful info when, with a
little more work, their network can be fast to get up and running if they
are the type of business who insist on all machines shut down overnight.

so I'll be adding you to my ignore list.

Yah, good, you do that. It only goes to prove you were wrong and didnt want
to know any better. How pathetic of you.

I'm here to help, not hinder, and


Then HELP and dont add to the worries oif people with your uninformed
"help".

further discussion in this manner does not belong in this forum.


You are wrong there too. It is a networking issue and I have to tell you
that you really should know what you are talking about. Get out in the
field, work with multiple network and gain knowledge. That will help you to
BE help. Until you do, all you are doing is adding RUBBISH as "knowledge"
and then refusing to take any other information as truth and refuse to test
it. That proves you are someone to be avoided for "help".