lindows!?

ditch - thank you!

thank you for your decent, informative reply! much obliged sir!

okay...

all the machines work fine internally. they can ping each other, have the correct IP addresses set up and all that jazz.

i now have a clean install of windows 2000 on that machine, and will try the MTU settings you suggested.

what do I set the MTU on the windows 2000 machine to? also 1412?

noone:

/me grabs the stick and bliksems noone over the head with it! [:D]

sorry mate, i get a bit tense when people attack me... it's okay. i have money for the cable, i just don't like wasting money - if there was a chance that it wasn't going to work, it'd be wasting. I have new hope now with ditch's explanation. I'm going to follow it step by step, and if it doesn't work. I'll kill myself. :)

sorry for carrying on and on about this guys. i just don't understand how it could work so easily for everyone else, and not for me.

rodent - just a normal install, sentech install, ics enable - play?

what else did you load/do?

damn! maybe it's just my bad luck then... [:D]


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ChemicalX, yes, I did a plain sentech installation, chose the connection under Network Connections, and enabled ICS.

All the machines on my network though, have got "Path MTU Discovery" enabled. You can adjust this with DrTCP, or simply adjust the MTU to something like 1412 on all the machines's LAN interfaces.

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Hehe... dont you guys mean Linspire ?
They changed their name temporarily, till they have enough funds to win against microsoft (I'm lying about why) but yeah they changed the name.
 
HAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!

*laugh some more... histerically...*

i have the worst luck... EVER! nope. gents. it doesn't work.

took the freshly installed W2K machine, loaded the sentech software on it. changed all the settings in DrTCP to "Default" or blank and the MTU to 1412 (tried 1458 later as well)

i couldn't even get onto the mywireless registration site on the gateway machine! or ping anything. it says that it's connected, but it just doesn't want to connect to anything.

put the modem back onto the windows xp machine next to it - it works from that machine.

so, i now send out an open invitation to ANYONE who believes that they can sort out this problem - come have a go!

tonite i'm loading windows xp on the gateway machine again (seen as windows 2000 doesn't even freakin' connect) and then if you are man enough to step up to the plate and have a go at it, i'll be accepting attempts the whole of tonite after the reinstall and all of tomorrow.

I'll have VNC running, contact me on yahoo if you want to have a go, and i'll give you the ip/password.

'cos obviously I'm doing something wrong. If it's supposed to be that straightforward, then it should work, right? NOT!

[:(]

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
methinks chemX must be a Windoze programmer to never have heard of Lindows...or maybe he's just been with a Net connection for so long [;)]

Dewd the only way you're gonna work this out is to start from scratch (one machine by itself, nothing but a fresh WinXP install) and get that working...then start adding complexities like LANs, ICS, firewalls etc...good luck [:p]

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lewstherin - tried that mate. had a freshly installed windows 2000 machine (said that further up in the thread) - with just the modem on, before anything else - that wouldn't even connect to the registration site, much less anything else.

i am indeed a windoze ([;)]) programmer, but i've had a permanent internet connection for quite some time - 'cept when i had 128k ISDN.

quite some time - the past three years, and i've never had this problem before, even for the first two or so months on sentech - just stopped working one day. last week monday to be exact.

and since then i've done everything i can think of to fix it, including numerous fresh starts on the gateway machine, formats on all the other machines on the network, getting a new switch and re-cabling my entire network from scratch. i've tried MTU settings galore and eventually got my browsing working with kerio wingate firewall but through all of this, i still cannot play my game...

yes. ridiculous, isn't it? all of this just for a game! a bloody good game, but a game none the less.



if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
okay, so i've now downloaded smoothwall 2.0

now i need to get the ethernet cable.

noone, would you be interested in selling that one of your's, seen as you don't seem to be using it anymore.

are fastcomm the only people that supply this cable?

'cos that means i have to drive all the way out to PTA to go and get one.

would anyone be willing to lend their's to me so i can see if it works? if you can spare it?

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
ChemicalX, if you can't get the modem to even ping, or access the registration page from a Windows2000 PC there's something seriously wrong.

Perhaps you upset some small gods at some point in your life? C'mon hands up here people, who has used the modem under Win2k sucessfully?

/me raises a paw...

Seriously, does the modem pass the diagnostic tests then? Does it dial? Does it connect? Does it report signal strength? I cannot fathom how this would work on an XP machine but not the Win2K PC. Is the Win2K pc the machine you've been trying to get the gateway on all this time? Possibly there might be some very strange hardware issue?

This is extremely odd...


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finally! someone who agrees with the oddity of my situation!

but, fear not citizens!

i have found a resolution!!!

i got a signal RIGHT next to my desktop PC! woot!

so, i can now share the connection from this machine, and SWG <i>should</i> (start praying) still work! :)

yah! if i don't post again. it means it didn't work, and i've killed myself... [:D]

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
ChemicalX, I feel your pain, I went through this mission with Comrade Borris a few weeks ago, also could not get the registration page to even show up. (we were using win2k server)
followed everyones brilliant advice and tried all sorts of different combinations of MTU sizes with Dr. Tcp and had no luck.
Then realised all Dr.Tcp does is changes a few registry entries, but these are useless until you reboot after entering the settings, I used the settings in the "mtu / Drtcp" thread.

Once you see that box up and running, go to the other pc's and change the mtu size of their network adaptors, and reboot after.

If you've already tried this, Your on your own dude!
About that change on monday, Comrade borris told me he couldn't get online again, I think it was last sunday, when he checked his I.P, Sentech put him on the 10.* range. *Weird*
I guess they were making some changes and he happened to connect at the wrong time, but a quick reconnect, and everything was back to normal.
It was probably after this that everything went wrong on your side.
 
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ROFL, that must have been.. um.. interesting [:I]

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Presently I have the IPW modem connected to a machine running XP Home and this works fine(ie. ICS etc). I have tried doing the same connection via a machine running XP pro with exactly the same settings and I have not been successful in connecting the client machines (no 3rd party software). There is obviously something different in the XP Pro software that messes up the default ICS [:(]
 
chemicalx

I agree with TheRoDent..

Why not try another operating system on the Gateway PC. Why not XP to make sure it is not OS specific? If you can't even just connect from the PC itself... man that doesn't sound healthy. If you can get that sorted first then try and stuff around with LAN's ICS Firewalls.

Why not try the setup on one of your other PC's you spoke about a Win XP box that it worked on. Why not ICS that connection and try and see if that works?

Fault finding is a matter of eliminating what it cannot be. Currently it can be OS or Hardware. Modem has been tested on another PC and you say that works.
 
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