Trouble with network

[blackeye]

I reinstalled windows XP profensional and now I can access the internet but I cant connect to the networks on shareaza. I cant play online games and I cant stream videos off TSN. All of this worked befor reinstalled. I already tried turning off zone alarm and that didnt help. So I just uninstalled it and that didnt help either. Im going through a router and im using the onboard ethernet port on my motherboard. Any one got any ideas? Uninstalling the driver for the ethernet port didnt work and neither did reinstalling it. Device manager tells me the card is owrking perectly but its not.

 

[poseyjmac]

if you can access the internet, then your hardware(nic) is working fine.

what service pack do you have installed?

 

[lePobz]

Disable XP firewall maybe?

 

[blackeye]

got service pack one and the firewall is disabled. Still doesnt work. Another thing i should tell you is that the first time you open IE the web pages dont load. Then when you close IE and open it up again it works fine.

 

[poseyjmac]

have you scanned for spyware and viruses?

if you were unprotected after installing windows, some things could have reinfected you before you installed zone alarm. even if you did though, scan anyway. rule out adware and viruses

 

[blackeye]

no adware no viruses

 

[lePobz]

Your router - does it assign LAN IPs dynamically? I.E. you may have been given a different LAN IP than the one you had before the format, and the new LAN IP may not have been granted privileges for specialist applications other than the default internet and email - suggest you check out the firewall options on your routers config panel.

 

[blackeye]

it assigns the ips dynamically. Which your only sposed to use if you are a cable modem user. But im DSL and i called the phone company and they told me that it should be on dynamic so thats what i have it on right now. I opened ports on the firewall to allow my P2P software to run but it still wont connect to the servers.

 

[lePobz]

Yeah thats for the routers NET IP, I was referring to the LAN IPs of the machines on the network, depends if the router is set up as a DHCP server to dish out the LAN IPs or not. Anyway you should check this and make sure the LAN IP of the machine now has privileges for all ports that you need.

 

[blackeye]

well i just set up my computer in the DMZ and that seems to have worked becuase now I can connect Gnutella2. But it means that I dont have a firewall on the router anymore. But i still have the problem with internet explorer that it cant connect when you boot up the computer. You have to close the browser and open it a second time to load pages.

 

[lePobz]

I don't know what's causing that problem. I do know that setting your machine up as a DMZ is a really bad idea, you should just add the ports you need to your router's 'special applications' ... at the moment you have no ports blocked or anything, and its all routed directly to your machine :|

If i were you i'd disable DMZ and any software firewalls you have, enable the routers firewall and route the ports you need through it.

 

[poseyjmac]

if dmz worked then you just haven't set up the ports correctly for your apps to function. if there are ports being blocked that you dont know about. download www.ethereal.com its a network analyzer. run the app with all ports open, log activity and note what incoming ports are being used.

about the IE, remember that it takes a while for the network services to load. they dont load automatically if you boot up quickly and login quickly. i mean if i boot up right now and log in, i too can't access the web, i have to wait for the services to load. the way i know the network is ready is my nic adapter icon appears in the systray. regardless of your hardware this is inevitable after a quick boot.

 

[Maskirovka]

do you have more than one computer on your network? i had a problem before...i didn't have the ports forwarded to my computer...i just had them forwarded to 192.168.1.101.

the other computer on the network was always on, so it retained its ip. i had my computer off for a while and rebooted the 2nd computer and it took the .101 ip, making my port forwarding useless :\

took me like 20 minutes to figure that out...i felt dumb

 

[poseyjmac]

u know, you could just manually set your ip to 192.168.1.100, then that forward would always work :sniper: :dork:

 

[blackeye]

it works perfectly now anyways. For some reason my firewall keept blocking my router. But it works i just told Zone alarm to allow the router to connect to the computer and i configured some prots directly on the routhers firewall to allow Shareaza to connect also.