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Valek
Guest
Wow, okay, where to start...I guess the beginning would be a good place. Forgive me everybody, this is kinda long but I want to give you as much background as I can possibly remember. Sadly I think I know the answers I am going to get, but we'll try anyway. A week ago I brought home a D-Link router to replace the hub and two purchesed IP addresses supplied by Road Runner. I followed the instructions in their little quick start guide to gain access to the router and to configure it.
After about thirty attempts at typing http://192.168.0.1 into IE6 I was FINALLY able to gain access to the router and configure it to assign dynamic IP addresses to my two computers. Both computers were then able to go out online with no apparent problems.
2 days later I started having connectivity issues where I would suddenly lose my internet connection. I contacted D-Link's tech support and was told to assign my XP machine a static IP address and also to make a change in the router config to "renew IP address forever", so I did. I rebooted the XP box adn then was back out online.
Yesterday I suddenly lost connectivity and could not, no matter how I tried, get into the router config. I changed my IP from static back to Dynamic and upon a fresh reboot I could go into the command prompt and through IPCONFIG /ALL I could see where I had been assigned a valid IP address, correct subnet mask and DG. I could ping the router but could not do any DNS pings. But I could not go online or get into the router config come hell or high water. Neither computer could go online. If I released the IP address I could forget renewing it because It couldn't contact the DHCP server...but let me reboot and there was an IP address again. I reset the router and the cable modem so many times I lost count.
2 1/2 hours on the phone with someone I could barely understand and still no connectivity. He told me I had a bad router. I asked him if any services in Windows XP Pro would interfere in any way with XP being able to connect to the router. He told me unequivocally "NO".
You see, this is the part where I get to hang my head in shame...I am curious and so I installed some of the addtional features in the add remove programs Windows components section like IIS, SNMP, RIP v.1 yesterday morning prior to my really bad lock out. I had also just finished downloading and installing the critical updates and XP updates from Microsoft as well. So, I am not sure if any of those could be a part of the problem. I did go back and uninstall the additional Windows components I installed and checked in the services to see if there were any that were still running that may have affected it but nothing I found made me even slightly curious.
I resigned myself to taking the router back and exchanging it. When I got to my CCNA class and told my instructor about it he suggested I bring it in and we try it on one of the lab computers running Win2K Pro. Inside of 30 seconds he was connected and surfing the Web. So no bad Router. He told me to bring it home and connect to the interface through my 98 Box and not to worry about why I can't connect through XP.
Well, I did bring it home and after resetting the router, and cable modem, I hooked my 98 Box into port 1 and was into the configuration menu in no time and had both computers out online. I tried for grins and giggles to connect to it through my XP machine and still no go.
I know that by my having downloaded all the updates and Installing the additional features I will probably never know the answer to this riddle, but maybe someone else has experienced (pardon the pun) something similar. I have downloaded all critical updates and all Windows XP updates so it could be any one of them. I've included my services and their status if that would be of any help. They are:
Name Status Startup Type Log On As
Alerter Manual Local Service
Application Layer Gateway Service Manual Local Service
Application Management Manual Local System
ASP.NET State Service Manual .\ASPNET
Automatic Updates Manual Local System
Background Intelligent Transfer Service Manual Local System
ClipBook Manual Local System
COM+ Event System Started Manual Local System
COM+ System Application Manual Local System
Computer Browser Manual Local System
Cryptographic Services Started Automatic Local System
DHCP Client Started Automatic Local System
Diskeeper Started Automatic Local System
Distributed Link Tracking Client Started Automatic Local System
Distributed Transaction Coordinator Manual Network Service
DNS Client Started Automatic Network Service
Error Reporting Service Disabled Local System
Event Log Started Automatic Local System
Fast User Switching Compatibility Disabled Local System
Help and Support Started Automatic Local System
Human Interface Device Access Disabled Local System
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Manual Local System
Indexing Service Disabled Local System
InteractiveLogon Automatic Local System
Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) / Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Manual Local System
IPSEC Services Manual Local System
Leadtek Driver Helper Service Started Automatic Local System
Logical Disk Manager Started Automatic Local System
Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service Manual Local System
Machine Debug Manager Disabled Local System
Messenger Started Automatic Local System
MS Software Shadow Copy Provider Manual Local System
Net Logon Manual Local System
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing Manual Local System
Network Connections Started Manual Local System
Network DDE Disabled Local System
Network DDE DSDM Disabled Local System
Network Location Awareness (NLA) Started Manual Local System
Norton AntiVirus Auto Protect Service Started Automatic Local System
Norton Unerase Protection Started Automatic Local System
NT LM Security Support Provider Manual Local System
pcAnywhere Host Service Manual Local System
Performance Logs and Alerts Manual Network Service
Plug and Play Started Automatic Local System
Portable Media Serial Number Disabled Local System
Print Spooler Started Automatic Local System
Protected Storage Started Automatic Local System
QoS RSVP Disabled Local System
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager Manual Local System
Remote Access Connection Manager Manual Local System
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager Manual Local System
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Started Automatic Local System
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator Manual Network Service
Remote Registry Disabled Local Service
Removable Storage Manual Local System
Routing and Remote Access Disabled Local System
ScriptBlocking Service Automatic Local System
Secondary Logon Manual Local System
Security Accounts Manager Disabled Local System
Shell Hardware Detection Started Automatic Local System
Smart Card Disabled Local Service
Smart Card Helper Disabled Local Service
Speed Disk service Disabled Local System
SSDP Discovery Service Started Manual Local Service
System Event Notification Started Automatic Local System
System Restore Service Automatic Local System
Task Scheduler Started Automatic Local System
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Manual Local Service
Telephony Manual Local System
Telnet Manual Local System
Terminal Services Disabled Local System
Themes Started Automatic Local System
Uninterruptible Power Supply Manual Local Service
Universal Plug and Play Device Host Manual Local Service
Upload Manager Manual Local System
Volume Shadow Copy Manual Local System
WebClient Disabled Local Service
Windows Audio Started Automatic Local System
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Manual Local System
Windows Installer Manual Local System
Windows Management Instrumentation Started Automatic Local System
Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions Manual Local System
Windows Time Started Automatic Local System
Wireless Zero Configuration Manual Local System
WMI Performance Adapter Manual Local System
Workstation Started Automatic Local System
I'm totally lost. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Val
p.s.
sorry about hte way the formatting of the services turned out in the post. It looked much nicer in the text file I copied it from.
After about thirty attempts at typing http://192.168.0.1 into IE6 I was FINALLY able to gain access to the router and configure it to assign dynamic IP addresses to my two computers. Both computers were then able to go out online with no apparent problems.
2 days later I started having connectivity issues where I would suddenly lose my internet connection. I contacted D-Link's tech support and was told to assign my XP machine a static IP address and also to make a change in the router config to "renew IP address forever", so I did. I rebooted the XP box adn then was back out online.
Yesterday I suddenly lost connectivity and could not, no matter how I tried, get into the router config. I changed my IP from static back to Dynamic and upon a fresh reboot I could go into the command prompt and through IPCONFIG /ALL I could see where I had been assigned a valid IP address, correct subnet mask and DG. I could ping the router but could not do any DNS pings. But I could not go online or get into the router config come hell or high water. Neither computer could go online. If I released the IP address I could forget renewing it because It couldn't contact the DHCP server...but let me reboot and there was an IP address again. I reset the router and the cable modem so many times I lost count.
2 1/2 hours on the phone with someone I could barely understand and still no connectivity. He told me I had a bad router. I asked him if any services in Windows XP Pro would interfere in any way with XP being able to connect to the router. He told me unequivocally "NO".
You see, this is the part where I get to hang my head in shame...I am curious and so I installed some of the addtional features in the add remove programs Windows components section like IIS, SNMP, RIP v.1 yesterday morning prior to my really bad lock out. I had also just finished downloading and installing the critical updates and XP updates from Microsoft as well. So, I am not sure if any of those could be a part of the problem. I did go back and uninstall the additional Windows components I installed and checked in the services to see if there were any that were still running that may have affected it but nothing I found made me even slightly curious.
I resigned myself to taking the router back and exchanging it. When I got to my CCNA class and told my instructor about it he suggested I bring it in and we try it on one of the lab computers running Win2K Pro. Inside of 30 seconds he was connected and surfing the Web. So no bad Router. He told me to bring it home and connect to the interface through my 98 Box and not to worry about why I can't connect through XP.
Well, I did bring it home and after resetting the router, and cable modem, I hooked my 98 Box into port 1 and was into the configuration menu in no time and had both computers out online. I tried for grins and giggles to connect to it through my XP machine and still no go.
I know that by my having downloaded all the updates and Installing the additional features I will probably never know the answer to this riddle, but maybe someone else has experienced (pardon the pun) something similar. I have downloaded all critical updates and all Windows XP updates so it could be any one of them. I've included my services and their status if that would be of any help. They are:
Name Status Startup Type Log On As
Alerter Manual Local Service
Application Layer Gateway Service Manual Local Service
Application Management Manual Local System
ASP.NET State Service Manual .\ASPNET
Automatic Updates Manual Local System
Background Intelligent Transfer Service Manual Local System
ClipBook Manual Local System
COM+ Event System Started Manual Local System
COM+ System Application Manual Local System
Computer Browser Manual Local System
Cryptographic Services Started Automatic Local System
DHCP Client Started Automatic Local System
Diskeeper Started Automatic Local System
Distributed Link Tracking Client Started Automatic Local System
Distributed Transaction Coordinator Manual Network Service
DNS Client Started Automatic Network Service
Error Reporting Service Disabled Local System
Event Log Started Automatic Local System
Fast User Switching Compatibility Disabled Local System
Help and Support Started Automatic Local System
Human Interface Device Access Disabled Local System
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Manual Local System
Indexing Service Disabled Local System
InteractiveLogon Automatic Local System
Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) / Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Manual Local System
IPSEC Services Manual Local System
Leadtek Driver Helper Service Started Automatic Local System
Logical Disk Manager Started Automatic Local System
Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service Manual Local System
Machine Debug Manager Disabled Local System
Messenger Started Automatic Local System
MS Software Shadow Copy Provider Manual Local System
Net Logon Manual Local System
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing Manual Local System
Network Connections Started Manual Local System
Network DDE Disabled Local System
Network DDE DSDM Disabled Local System
Network Location Awareness (NLA) Started Manual Local System
Norton AntiVirus Auto Protect Service Started Automatic Local System
Norton Unerase Protection Started Automatic Local System
NT LM Security Support Provider Manual Local System
pcAnywhere Host Service Manual Local System
Performance Logs and Alerts Manual Network Service
Plug and Play Started Automatic Local System
Portable Media Serial Number Disabled Local System
Print Spooler Started Automatic Local System
Protected Storage Started Automatic Local System
QoS RSVP Disabled Local System
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager Manual Local System
Remote Access Connection Manager Manual Local System
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager Manual Local System
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Started Automatic Local System
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator Manual Network Service
Remote Registry Disabled Local Service
Removable Storage Manual Local System
Routing and Remote Access Disabled Local System
ScriptBlocking Service Automatic Local System
Secondary Logon Manual Local System
Security Accounts Manager Disabled Local System
Shell Hardware Detection Started Automatic Local System
Smart Card Disabled Local Service
Smart Card Helper Disabled Local Service
Speed Disk service Disabled Local System
SSDP Discovery Service Started Manual Local Service
System Event Notification Started Automatic Local System
System Restore Service Automatic Local System
Task Scheduler Started Automatic Local System
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Manual Local Service
Telephony Manual Local System
Telnet Manual Local System
Terminal Services Disabled Local System
Themes Started Automatic Local System
Uninterruptible Power Supply Manual Local Service
Universal Plug and Play Device Host Manual Local Service
Upload Manager Manual Local System
Volume Shadow Copy Manual Local System
WebClient Disabled Local Service
Windows Audio Started Automatic Local System
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Manual Local System
Windows Installer Manual Local System
Windows Management Instrumentation Started Automatic Local System
Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions Manual Local System
Windows Time Started Automatic Local System
Wireless Zero Configuration Manual Local System
WMI Performance Adapter Manual Local System
Workstation Started Automatic Local System
I'm totally lost. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Val
p.s.
sorry about hte way the formatting of the services turned out in the post. It looked much nicer in the text file I copied it from.