internet access stops after awhile

[Tittles]

Hey...I have IE6 and Firefox and after so long they dont work. Like if i try to go to a site it acts like its not connected but msn and aim r still connected but when i disconnect all together and then sign back on its fine untill it happends again. Whats the problem?

 

[Khayman]

What kind of connection do you have? dial up? broad band? do you use a router? are you on a network? is it just the web that doesn't work, ie can you ge on ftp or irc?
need more information

 

[PseudoKiller]

^^ What he said...

 

[Tittles]

umm...i have dial up...and from what i can tell its just the web. and i do use irc and dont ftp either.

 

[Mainframeguy]

dumb question - but check that on IE your file pulldown does not have "work offline" ticked

 

[Tittles]

:S...lol no its not that. I unno but it hasnt happend it the past day so maybe it was just a fluke? unno.

 

[LeeJend]

What ISP are you using? It sounds like congestion on their server. Try clicking the link again or hit the refresh button on the toolbar when it happens.

 

[Tittles]

i have done that too...i have at&t...pretty good service...way better than aol that i had for like 5 years cept we switched between aol and comcast once and comcast is the best.

 

[Tittles]

it did it again today . WTF

 

[RagnaroK]

Using a firewall?

 

[Tittles]

yes...i use the one on xp and i use zone alarm

 

[dreamliner77]

don't think that's your problem, but you really don't need both firewalls running

 

[RagnaroK]

yes...i use the one on xp and i use zone alarm

Well, if you're using the latest ZA versions (eg. versions 5+), then I have a hunch that might be your problem. I had a similar problem when I updated to ZA v5 (running bittorrent and ed2k for too long locked up my net access and had do a hard reset), but that problem disappeared when I downgraded back to older versions of ZA. I have also been reading that ZA v5 are quite buggy; are you using ZA v5?

 

[Tittles]

yes i am

 

[RagnaroK]

Then I'd suggest you try reverting back to an older, more stable version of ZA and see if it does any good. This link might be of some help.

http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=cfg&message.id=12294

 

[j79zlr]

try sygate firewall, much better than ZA IMHO, also make sure you disable the XP firewall if you are running a 3rd party firewall. 2 FW's at the same time = bad.

 

[Tittles]

thanks...when it drys outside i will download those programs and see what happends...i would try now but when it rains out my internet is slow as hell...like 16kbs

 

[dreamliner77]

that's never a good problem to have.

 

[Tittles]

nope...and we called the phone company to fix it and they keep sayin they do but they never do

 

[Lee]

Titties remove all outgoing and incoming permissions on your firewall and start from their..I had the same problems a couple of years ago with norton pf.

Once I had done that I just opened all my internet enabled programs and enabled them when prompted by npf. Have you installed a beta of xp2 also?

Hope you sort it.