How do I get rid of dual connections ???
Helped a friend to set up a XP machine on a LAN with two other machines and a Linksys cable/DSL router connected to a cable modem. DHCP is running. Everything works BUT for some reason there are two network connections, one Internet Connection and one Local Area Connection.
Helped a friend to set up a XP machine on a LAN with two other machines and a Linksys cable/DSL router connected to a cable modem. DHCP is running.
Everything works BUT for some reason there are two network connections, one "Internet Connection" and one "Local Area Connection". This causes a constant LAN traffic of 5,5 kB/Sec which is highly annoying.
If I tinker with the disabling of the internet connection a few times, it shows up as disabled but we still have access to the internet and the LAN traffic dissappears. I cannot delete the connection.
How can I fix this ?
Am I correct in assuming there should only be ONE network connection (the LAN connection) like it was when that machine was still running W2K ?
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Everything works BUT for some reason there are two network connections, one "Internet Connection" and one "Local Area Connection". This causes a constant LAN traffic of 5,5 kB/Sec which is highly annoying.
If I tinker with the disabling of the internet connection a few times, it shows up as disabled but we still have access to the internet and the LAN traffic dissappears. I cannot delete the connection.
How can I fix this ?
Am I correct in assuming there should only be ONE network connection (the LAN connection) like it was when that machine was still running W2K ?
H
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Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.
Set "Universal Plug and Play Device Host" to manual and "SSDP Discovery Service" to disabled (to stop it from starting).
For more service tweaks (I consider service tuning to be the main thing to do for your OS in terms of speed/security), Check out APK's Tuning Guide here on NTCompatible.
Set "Universal Plug and Play Device Host" to manual and "SSDP Discovery Service" to disabled (to stop it from starting).
For more service tweaks (I consider service tuning to be the main thing to do for your OS in terms of speed/security), Check out APK's Tuning Guide here on NTCompatible.
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So notice any difference in speed? I don't.
Yep, for me the first connection is now almost instant (on cable) previously it took about 10 precious secs to start the internet (first time only) after a reboot.
Also, the constant LAN traffic of 5,5 kB/sec disappears. Small but annoying.
H.
So notice any difference in speed? I don't.
Yep, for me the first connection is now almost instant (on cable) previously it took about 10 precious secs to start the internet (first time only) after a reboot.
Also, the constant LAN traffic of 5,5 kB/sec disappears. Small but annoying.
H.
Found one little problem with this, Ping and Tracert (externally) don't work anymore. Internet is fine though, so I guess its just the Linksys box that is not permitting ICMP. ANyone have an idea how to get that to work ?
H.
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Found one little problem with this, Ping and Tracert (externally) don't work anymore. Internet is fine though, so I guess its just the Linksys box that is not permitting ICMP. ANyone have an idea how to get that to work ?
H.
Don't know... because I just tried pinging my mail server at work and ping and tracert worked fine for me.
6pac
Found one little problem with this, Ping and Tracert (externally) don't work anymore. Internet is fine though, so I guess its just the Linksys box that is not permitting ICMP. ANyone have an idea how to get that to work ?
H.
Don't know... because I just tried pinging my mail server at work and ping and tracert worked fine for me.
6pac
That's a known issue with the firmware updates for the Linksys router that enabled UPnP. The beta testers even had the issue and reported it, but Linksys wanted to get the UPnP function out to the public. I would imagine that a newer release should be out very shortly to address this, if it isn't on their site already.
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That's a known issue with the firmware updates for the Linksys router that enabled UPnP. The beta testers even had the issue and reported it, but Linksys wanted to get the UPnP function out to the public. I would imagine that a newer release should be out very shortly to address this, if it isn't on their site already.
So what version of the firmware do you think we should be running? Myself, I am not doing anything like PPoE or anything special...
Also a link to downloading the firmware too. I don't think Linksys lets you download other versions other then the latest on their site that they posted.
sixpac
That's a known issue with the firmware updates for the Linksys router that enabled UPnP. The beta testers even had the issue and reported it, but Linksys wanted to get the UPnP function out to the public. I would imagine that a newer release should be out very shortly to address this, if it isn't on their site already.
So what version of the firmware do you think we should be running? Myself, I am not doing anything like PPoE or anything special...
Also a link to downloading the firmware too. I don't think Linksys lets you download other versions other then the latest on their site that they posted.
sixpac
I have a local network with '98 XP NT-server and a Linux computer on it.
A P2-500 is set as router with Sygate Internet sharing software and I have no problems at all.
Networking is going great and XP is using the max of my internet connection.
Maybe you have a old system somewhere on witch you can do the same.
For me it solved alot of problems.
A P2-500 is set as router with Sygate Internet sharing software and I have no problems at all.
Networking is going great and XP is using the max of my internet connection.
Maybe you have a old system somewhere on witch you can do the same.
For me it solved alot of problems.
