Re: Loss Broadband Connection

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:23:25 -0600

Yes, it has a good support page at www.SARC.com and I did
find the NIS 2004 manual (over 4 MB PDF) and it does allow
manual settings, but the default automatic settings are just
too aggressive. Plus, even when we turned the program off,
it still held the settings and did not release the ports and
applications.

Zone Alarm is much easier to use and is an excellent
firewall. 

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"Hunter B" <HunterB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message 
news:C605099B-2FB9-47C2-9434-A9142503C325@microsoft.com...
|I had a similar problem with NIS and that is why I removed 
it from my Dell
| and went with a different product.  I now use Sygate and I 
am not having any
| problems.  Not to say that NIS is a bad product...but it 
shouldn't be doing
| that.  Norton is a good company to deal with though and 
has great tech
| support.   Just my .02$
|
| "Jim Macklin" wrote:
|
| > Just had ands solved a similar problem on my son's Dell. 
It
| > seems that an update to Norton Internet Security was
| > automatically blocking XP services, such as the 
application
| > gateway layer service and basically any application that
| > tried to connect to the Internet.  Even turning Norton 
off
| > did not fix the problem, what ever registry that it set 
was
| > not reset.  After several days of trying to reset with
| > ipconfig, using the repair button in the network 
properties
| > (cache could not be cleared, didn't work) ended up 
deleting
| > the C: partition (just OS and apps) and doing a clean
| > install.  It was during this that Norton problem was
| > identified.
| >
| >
| > -- 
| > The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
| > But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
| >
| >
| > "Mordechai_flip" 
<Mordechaiflip@discussions.microsoft.com>
| > wrote in message
| > 
news:72D12AB2-98D1-450D-AD9E-D509702ECC12@microsoft.com...
| > | Every time I have to restart my computer I lose my 
cable
| > connection and have
| > | to use ipconfig then ipconfig /renew to get it working
| > again. I had this
| > | problem earlier, and nothing I have tried has worked. 
I am
| > running XP Home
| > | SP2 with a USB cable modem, and no router. All known
| > drivers are up to date,
| > | and there isn't any problem listed in the device 
manager.
| > I have uninstalled
| > | and re installed Zone Alarm and Norton's,  run  spybot
| > searches, virus checks
| > | with up to date programs,and turned off the Windows
| > firewall.
| > |
| > | Any other ideas? I, my cable company, and microsoft 
are
| > clean out.
| > |
| > | Error Log (there was and address, I put in the stars):
| > |
| > | Unable to contact a DHCP server. The Automatic Private 
IP
| > Address
| > | ***.***.***.*** will be assigned to dial-in clients.
| > Clients may be unable to
| > | access resources on the network.
| > |
| > | For more information, see Help and Support Center at
| > | http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
| > |
| >
| >
| >