that sounds about right..... :rolleyes:

 

 

 

...not that I've ever seen you give up Meg.....perhaps go away for a while to return to it later......chocolate is pretty good at helping

It's my saviour. When in doubt, eat chocolate.

:lol:

At least I'm not fussy although a nice dark truffle, dark chocolate liquor or mint choc would be lovely, most would do very nicely - as long as they don't have nuts, praline or turkish delight in them. You've got me wanting a bar of chocolate now.

So, did temptation overcome you when you fetched the papers today ?

I haven't been yet - my father-in-law is taking ages today. I haven't even got him washed yet.

Note the google ads.

 

Oops, they've gone. they were all for handmade chocolates.

Edited June 21, 200817 yr by Bramley

I don't fancy anyone but mine hands being on my chocolate - I just may have had to try them though. No chocolate with the papers though. I'm (nearly) a good girl.

Ok, any suggestions would be welcome. I've tried disenabling Norton and the firewall, no difference. I've got new cable and replaced the local network ones. I'm exactly the same. The only message is local area connectivity

speed: 10.0mbps

staruw: limited ot no connectivity

 

I can still connect to my son's pc and he to mine. Neither of us can connect to Dave's or the internet.

Dunno if any of this helps

 

Physically connect the computers together. Plug the cables into hubs, phone jacks, and the computer. Connect your computers together

Turn on all computers and printers.

Make sure the computer attached to the residential gateway (or the ICS host computer) has an active Internet connection.

Run the Windows XP Home Edition Network Setup Wizard on the computer attached to the residential gateway (or the ICS host computer). Network Setup Wizard overview

Run the Network Setup Wizard on the other computers on your network. Configure other computers on your network using a floppy disk

 

 

Internet Connection Sharing overviewWith Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), you can connect computers on your home or small office network to the Internet using just one connection. For example, you have one computer that connects to the Internet using a dial-up connection. When ICS is enabled on this computer, called the ICS host, other computers on the network connect to the Internet through this dial-up connection.

 

When you are setting up a home or small office network, it is recommended that you use the Network Setup Wizard in Windows XP Home Edition to enable Internet Connection Sharing. The Network Setup Wizard automatically provides all of the network settings you need to share one Internet connection with all the computers in your network.

 

Note

 

To start the Network Setup Wizard, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Network Setup Wizard.

After ICS is enabled, and you make sure that all of your computers can communicate with each other and they have Internet access, you can use programs such as Internet Explorer and Outlook Express as if they were directly connected to the Internet service provider (ISP). When a request to the Internet is made, the ICS host computer connects to the ISP and creates the connection so that other computers can reach a specified Web address or download e-mail. To test your network and Internet connection, see if you can share files between computers and that each computer can get to a Web address.

 

Internet Connection Sharing is intended for use in a network where the ICS host computer directs network communication between computers and the Internet. It is assumed that in a home or small office network, the ICS host computer has the only Internet connection. While other computers on the network may have modems to access the Internet, their primary connection is through the ICS host computer.

 

You might need to configure the Internet Connection Sharing computer to work properly across the Internet. Services that you provide must be configured so that Internet users can access them. For example, if you are hosting a Web server on your home or small office network, and want Internet users to be able to connect to it, you must configure the Web server service on the ICS host computer. For more information, see Opening ports in Windows Firewall.

 

You must enable ICS on the public connection of your home or small office network. If you have more than one network adapter installed on your computer, you need to choose the local area connection that communicates with the rest of the computers on your home or small office network. This is also called the private network connection. If there are two or more local area connections, when you enable ICS, you must do one of the following:

 

Select one connection to connect to the rest of the computers on your network. For information about how to choose the private connection, see Public and private network connections.

If you have two or more local area connections, and all of them connect to the rest of the computers on your network, you need to bridge the local area connections before you can select the connection to your home or small office network. If you choose to create a network bridge that includes all of the local area connections to your network, the bridge is automatically selected when you enable ICS. If you create a network bridge that does not include all of the local area connections to your network, you can still select the bridge as your private connection. For information about how to enable ICS, see Enable Internet Connection Sharing on a network connection. For information about how to bridge connections, see Bridge connections.

For information about the protocols, services, interfaces, and routes that are configured by enabling Internet Connection Sharing, see Internet Connection Sharing settings

 

Important

 

The ICS host computer needs two network connections. The local area network connection, automatically created by installing a network adapter, connects to the computers on the home or small office network. The other connection, using a 56k modem, ISDN, DSL, or cable modem, connects the home or small office network to the Internet. You need to ensure that ICS is enabled on the connection that has the Internet connection. By doing this, the shared connection can connect your home or small office network to the Internet.

When you enable Internet Connection Sharing, the local area network connection to the home or small office network is given a new static IP address and configuration. Consequently, TCP/IP connections established between any home or small office computer and the ICS host computer at the time of enabling ICS are lost and need to be reestablished.

 

 

All of that was done and all worked. Now it has stopped and I don't know why. I don't like the drop in speed in the network connection as I feel this is responsible. I can't find what has caused this or how to put it right.

Have you tried doing it again since it stopped working?

 

Another thought - go onto Dave's computer

double click on his internet connection icon (usually a little computer bottom right on task bar)

click on properties

click on the "advanced tab" and make sure the "allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet connection" is ticked

 

 

The only thing there is the broadband medic - no internet connection icon.

If it is the one that tells you you are connected and the speed, then try double clicking on it.

 

 

No ir doesn't. It's the local network that's actually admitting to being slow.

without actually sitting at the PC, I'm out of ideas.

I'm thinking of sitting on the pc - and bringing an axe with me.

That will sort your frustration but won't bring back the internet connection.

The internet is a bit more difficult to chop up.

we have had trouble with our connection - and it is still painfully slow at times - in the end it turned out to be a dodgy lead from the socket to the modem, it took the virgin engineer some time to realise he didnt have a whole batch of faulty modems before he twigged it could be the lead(he was setting them all up using the old power lead)! the connection didnt just go either, it just became slower amd slower, and losing connection at times, I could get on to the home pages then it wouldnt go anywhere else, then it jut gave up the ghost completely. we now have a tiny new black virgin modem as wel as a new power cable for tjhe modem, as evidently our modem was an old model as it was - we went through every thing, but overlooked the simplest thing whihc wa the actual power lead.

 

but our internet so still so slow!!

Edited June 22, 200817 yr by prettyinpink