Negotiating contact problems

I'm with Freeserve/Wanadoo and use both a desktop and laptop on the same
account.

Both connect to the servers immediately.

The desktop logs in immediately, but the laptop sometimes takes 2 or 3
minutes to negotiate a login.

Any logical reason for this?

Steve

Steve wrote:
> I'm with Freeserve/Wanadoo and use both a desktop and laptop on the
> same account.
>
> Both connect to the servers immediately.
>
> The desktop logs in immediately, but the laptop sometimes takes 2 or 3
> minutes to negotiate a login.
>
> Any logical reason for this?
>
> Steve

More info req'd. Which operating systems are they using? Is one wireless and
the other wired into the modem/router?
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> Steve wrote:
> > I'm with Freeserve/Wanadoo and use both a desktop and laptop on the
> > same account.
> >
> > Both connect to the servers immediately.
> >
> > The desktop logs in immediately, but the laptop sometimes takes 2 or 3
> > minutes to negotiate a login.
> >
> > Any logical reason for this?
> >
> > Steve
>
> More info req'd. Which operating systems are they using? Is one wireless
and
> the other wired into the modem/router?
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Hi Paul,
The desk top is 98SE and the laptop is win 2000, neither are connected to a
network of any form. Until recently both worked fine - indeed the laptop
has always connected faster than the desktop. I presumed that "something"
had penetrated the laptop, but having run Spybot, Ad-aware, Hijack and
Norton AntiVirus nothing has shown up and the situation hasn't improved.

Cheers
Steve