Dear all,
This is going to be a longish, pathetic post and hopefully it won't turn
into a suicide note .. I know it's not that bad. I am having trouble with
everthing XP and Ethernet and Bluetooth. A brief history.
a) Was on Win 98 with Ethernet Broadband on two computers via Netgear RT314
router. Everything worked swimingly.
b) Moved house and had to move to ADSL USB Speedtouch connection. This
worked okayish. I only access the Internet using one PC at a time but I'd
like to be able to move back to the original configuration soon.
c) Adding new devices such as USB ActiveSync for new Pocket PC and bluetooth
bits just wasn't cutting the mustard with Win 98 so it was just the excuse
that I needed to upgrade to Win XP Pro.
d) Performed upgrade.
e) Single PC USB ADSL connection works more robustly than it did with Win 98
but whenever I have try to add ActiveSync, Bluetooth or install the drivers
for my ASUS onboard Ethernet connection my ADSL connection mucks up. It
still connects but can never find any websites.
f) From reading troubleshooting information for the Pocket PC I restored to
a working restore point and copied the Winsock* registry entries from the
working ADSL setup. Whenever I merge these back in the ADSL works again but
the other devices are shafted. I now have to do this every time I drum up
the courage to try again. When I try to set up a local network I get
nowhere.
Can someone point me in the right direction .. not to Beachy head. Has
anyone else got this issue where it seems the TCP/IP configuration just
needs a little nudge (i.e. installing a new device) and it then knackers up.
Am I doing something blindingly obviously wrong or unreasonable. I don't
want someone to have to explain it to me. I don't mind doing the legwork
but I just keep hitting TCP/IP brick walls at the moment.
I really don't know where to start. I was pretty pleased when I was able to
get the Win 98 home network up and running and I can't believe that I'm so
dumb that I can't do it with this machine. I can't even ping the router or
get to it's setup page.
Apologies if the post is a bit garbled/jumbled. I don't know quite how much
information I should be adding.
Inept with XP,
Keith
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