TSGL: Hard times with broken network connections

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi,

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

No, it's indeed rather new, but has worked some 3 to 4 month without any 
problems. I've btw. had (my first?) real P&P experience there. I plugged it 
in, and it worked well from the 1st second. I've never had to change any 
settings there.

Tilman


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: H Davis
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
  Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 7:40 PM
  Subject: Re: TSGL: Hard times with broken network connections


  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