TSGL: Hard times with broken network connections

[H Davis]

Tilman,

Has the modem been replaced or reset just before this problem arose?

H Davis

Tilman Brandl wrote:
> 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 
>
>
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