Re: Simple home network problem

doonboggle wrote:

> I have a simple 2 computer home network set up for the purpose of
> sharing
> printers, files and most importantly, ICS. Both machines are recent
> manufactured systems from major companies; and both machines have
> Windows XP.
> My network is established via a crossover cable; no routers, etc..
> My ICS
> is dial-up. And finally, I have a firewall (Zone Alarm Suite)
> installed on both machines.
>
> Here's my problem. 'My' machine is the client machine; with the
> wife's
> being the gateway. If she is active in browsing, etc., everything
> seems to
> go OK. But, when her machine is idle, as no browsing activity, etc
> ... just sitting there connected to the web giving me, the client,
> also access ... it seems my machine gradually slows down in it's speed
> ... and eventually stops loading pages, urls, etc.......even though
> still being connected.
>
> Tonite while this happened, and it has been ongoing on now for some
> time ... just never 'analyzed' it in this manner ... when my machine
> quit loading, I
> had the wife refresh her idle page and also do a small bit of surfing.
> Right away, my machine began to again load pages at my request.
>
> Then later on, after the wife was again idle in her surfing, my
> machine again would not load.
>
> I've got the ZA settings to the middle settings ... as not in high
> security settings; but short of disabling it all together, can't seem
> to see any
> change. Also have the Microsoft AntiSpyWare active along with ZA.
> Windows firewall has been disengaged; and machines are configured
> within ZA as gateway and client settings regarding IP addresses.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is causing my machine, client, to stop
> loading even though still connected via the gateway machine?
>
> Thanks.

On your wife's machine, look at the network adapter's Properties from
Device Manager. Click on the Power Management tab and uncheck "allow
Windows to turn off this device while not in use" and see if that
helps.

Malke
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