TSGL: Hard times with broken network connections

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi,

I'm struggling with continuous network related errors - with my back to the 
wall.

Some history:
Unfortunately I can't exactly tell what exactly happened BEFORE this started 
about a week ago (but then ... who can?). I've had problems before with OE 
not connecting, but this looked pretty erratic. Sometimes some accounts 
didn't work, possibly a server timeout. Later I learned that this was 
actually 'localhos't, possibly my spamfighting software (spamihilator). 
Removing that program didn't change things, so it looks like these already 
were connection problems ...

At the same time I had a lot of BSODs repeatedly - after thorough searches I 
changed a memory timing in Bios, which improved things a lot.

My network currently is 1 PC (win2k) + 1 PC (xp pro sp2) on a netgear router 
behind a cable modem (cabling) + 1 Notebook (vista) on Wlan from that same 
router (works well!).

Now
what I get are broken connections on PC 1 together with repeated event 
messages like:

eventsource BROWSER; Event ID 8021: "The browser was unable to retrieve a 
list of servers from the browser master "\\ANDREA2400" on the network 
"\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{C70B5AA7-E03A-465C-A1EE-E3EFE858837F}"
    Here Andrea2400 is the second PC on our network, running Win 2k (my 
machine is XP pro sp2)

eventsource BROWSER; Event ID 8032: "The browser service has failed to 
retrieve the backup list too many times on transport of 
<\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{C70B5AA7-E03A-465C-A1EE-E3EFE858837F}>. The backup 
browser is stopping."

I've also seen
eventsource NetBT; Event ID 4321: "The name "ARGEWIEN       :1d" could not 
be registered on the Interface with IP address 192.168.1.3. The machine with 
the IP address 192.168.1.2 did not allow the name to be claimed by this 
machine.
    Here ARGEWIEN is our workgroup;

I've searched the net for solutions, but didn't find anything that would 
exactly fit with what I have ... (also: pretty complicated!)

Sofar I either shut down the network connection and reactivate it, or shut 
down internet browser and open it again, or reboot the PC. Only the latter 
will give me some tine with a working connection again.

My plans are to (1) get back to an earlier recovery point, about a week ago 
(2) delete the network items from control panel and let it install again ...
Any other ideas anybody out there?

Tilman