Re: Wireless Router access to Hotmail, Yahoo! mail, and FrontPage publishing

From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: 27 Aug 2004 15:18:14 -0500

On 27 Aug 2004 12:34:13 -0700, tim@armdrag.com (Tim) wrote:

>I just installed a Netgear 128 Mbps wirless router on my Windows XP
>SP2 machine and am having some problems:
>
>(1) I can't get to Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail from any browser (IE and
>Mozilla).
>
>(2) I can no longer publish to my website using FrontPage
>
>If I disconnect the router and connect directly to my cable modem,
>everything is fine.
>
>Things I've tried that didn't work:
>
>- I had a Linksys router with the same problem, so I returned it.
>Netgear is no better.
>- I upgraded to the latest firmware.
>- I adjusted the MTU from 1500 to 1492 to 1400 to 1300 to 1000.
>- I deleted the cookies & temp files from my Temporary Internet Files
>folder.
>- I uninstalled my Norton firewall, disabled Windows XP's native
>firewall, and disabled the router's firewall.
>- I disabled Norton anti-virus 2003.
>- I verified that IE's Cipher Strength is 128-bits.
>- I verified that IE uses both SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0.
>
>What else can I try?

Tim,

If you can only get connectivity when attaching your computer directly to your
cable modem, I'd bet it's a MAC filtering issue. The cable modem knows the
computer as the only valid device to connect.

Does your router have MAC spoofing? What model Netgear is it?

Try powering off the modem, router, and computer. Connect all 3. Wait a couple
minutes. Power the computer on, then the router, and finally the cable modem.
What do you get?

If that's not it, let's do some diagnostic work and define the symptoms.

Connect the computer to the router the cable modem. With all 3 operating:

>From a command window:
1) Ping www.yahoo.com.
2) Ping 66.94.230.33.
Report error messages.

>From your browser:
3) Browse www.yahoo.com.
4) Browse 66.94.230.33.
Report error messages.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

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