Re: request timed out message when trying to ping the local PC


Hi, Chuck,

It was around 5 a.m. here in Australia when I received your last reply, I
tried for about another half an hour and had to go sleep.
Today I checked Orlandina once again and discovered that regardless turning
off the Windows firewall and Norton Antivirus, Norton Internet Security was
still running in the background with another firewall "on". SO EMBARRASSING!!!
Of course, when I turned it off the client laptop was able to ping itself.
All I had to do was, to run Home Network Wizard setup again and it's all
working now.

Thank you so much for your help. My stupid mistake led to learning so many
new things, so that is the good part of it.
.

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