Slow Connection?

[Rusty10]

Hi everyone

I currently have a Netgear Router providing wireless broadband in my home. The main PC is connected via a D-Link Wireless USB adapter (or dongle!) and everything seems to work fine. However, whenever I bring home the office Laptop and connect wirelessly the following happens:

I have to manually search and connect to Network (In the office this is done automatically when you power on? It finds the wireless signal shakes hands and no problem?)

When I eventually connect, pages loaded via the internet seem to take a whole lot longer to load, again in the office this is fine?

Any ideas as to what may be the problem? The signs are pointing to my Router I guess?

One other thing! With said router I cannot seem to create a Home Network? The Workgroup is found but I get a permission error when trying to locate the Workgroup computer?

Many thanks and have a great day!

[johnwill]

Not sure what the wireless issue is.

This TCP/IP Home Networking and File Sharing Tutorial should get you started.

[Rusty10]

Many thanks for the guide johnwill.

When trying to network I get the attached error. I have disabled all AV, Firewalls etc and tried with Administrator user, and still no joy?

Any ideas?

Also does anyone know of any conflicts between the Broadcom Wireless card onboard the Laptop and Netgear Routers? Maybe its something to do with the WPA encryption on the Router?

Many thanks guys

Russ

[johnwill]

For each machine, let's see this.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

Type the following two commands, one at a time, followed by the Enter key:

NBTSTAT -n

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

[Rusty10]

Hi

Attached as requested! Mnay thanks

Russ

[johnwill]

I'm going to guess you can't PING by name between these two machines. Both of them think they're the master browser, which indicates they don't see each other. This is also why you get the error mentioned.

[Rusty10]

Thanks johnwill for your excellent reply. How would I go about fixing this? Shouls i delete the workgroup and try again?

Sorry meant to ask, shoud I edit the registry so that they both are set to AUTO (the laptop is currently showing system/current control set/ services / Browser/ parameters/ set to FALSE)

[johnwill]

Well, I'd try this first on both machines, then post the IPCONFIG /ALL results from both machines again.

BTW, if you follow my instructions for capturing the IPCONFIG results, you don't have to post graphics, you can simply paste the text of the IPCONFIG results here.

TCP/IP stack repair options for use with Windows XP with SP2.

Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt:

Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog

Reboot the machine.



Turn off any firewalls for debugging. If the firewall is the problem, you'll have to configure it to allow access to "trusted zone" addresses. Note that some firewalls must be completely uninstalled to stop them from affecting your networking.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt for the following commands:

PING each remote computer by IP address, and if successful, PING by name. Open a command prompt as described above and type.

PING <ip address>
or
PING <computer name>

Where:
<ip address> - is the x.x.x.x IP address
<computer name> - is the computer name

A failure to PING is almost always a firewall configuration issue. Any failure to PING needs to be corrected before you go any farther.

Note: You can obtain the IP address and computer name of a computer by opening a command prompt (DOS window) and typing IPCONFIG /ALL. This should work for any Windows version. The IPCONFIG /ALL display will provide a wealth of useful information for debugging your network connection.

Check your Services are Started on all PCs:

• Computer Browser
• DHCP Client
• DNS Client
• Network Connections
• Network Location Awareness
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
• Server
• TCP/IP Netbios helper
• Workstation

Note: You can check the services in Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services.

All of these services should be started, and their startup type should be automatic (perhaps one or two manual, but that should be started).