After reading my post, it sounds a little retarded. Let me explain again. My roomate plays an online game called Ultima Online. We have been using internet connection sharing for a while now with no problems. One day out of the blue, he no longer was able to connect to the Ultima servers. It starts to work, and connects him to the games patch server (for game patching of course) and then when it tries to recieve the message of the day, it freezes. Funny thing is, it works fine on my system, and he can access the web, but only parts of it. Some websites he can get onto, others he can't. Once in a while his game will connect to ther patch servers and he will recieve the message of the day, but then it again hangs. Almost like there is a block or something. In the above post I said the net works for like 20 secs. What I meant by that is, on the pages he can't connect to, it says, "website found waiting for response.." in I explorer, but doesn't do anything. Just hangs. I will try to do a ping later tonight from his system, but there has to be something that got changed. We have re-installed network drivers, operating systems, reconfigured ICS, and nothing seems to fix the problem. Any ideas?

I guess, if you haven't made any changes to the network settings the problem would lie at a hardware fault, maybe a NIC or the CAT, or whatever medium you're using. - Installed any web based apps recently? has he (bonzai etc - yuck!). Whats the connection to the internet? Cable, dialup? Checked the error logs?

It sounds like he is having DNS issues. On YOUR pc, open a command prompt and type: IPCONFIG /ALL ---> Record any DNS/Wins settings and insert those into his NIC properties. Also, you could *TRY* to set his DNS/WINS IP addresses to point to your PC (typically 192.168.0.1) via Win2000/98 ICS.
 
You also, if $$$ permits, setup Win2000 Server and setup the DHCP scope to issue out these IP addresses for *BOTH* of you.
 
The first suggestion should work though....
 
Good Luck!

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It sounds like he is having DNS issues. On YOUR pc, open a command prompt and type: IPCONFIG /ALL ---> Record any DNS/Wins settings and insert those into his NIC properties. Also, you could *TRY* to set his DNS/WINS IP addresses to point to your PC (typically 192.168.0.1) via Win2000/98 ICS.

You also, if $$$ permits, setup Win2000 Server and setup the DHCP scope to issue out these IP addresses for *BOTH* of you.

The first suggestion should work though....

Good Luck!

How do you figure DNS is at fault?

And how does a DHCP server allocate itself an IP?

I figure DNS is at fault because how many people go to websites by typing the IP address? I sure don't. I type the FQDN and from his description, he is doing the same. (www.ntcompatible.com and not typing 216.234.186.180). Since he is getting the famous IE error "website found waiting for response.." in IE, (but doesn't do anything. Just hangs, that leads me to believe it could be a DNS or Routing issue. I've had the same thing happen a few years ago when first configuring ICS. ICS does work most of the time and usually does a good job, but for some reasons, problems like the one 'Lotus' is having come up.
 
I suggested a DHCP server (W2K Server or a personal firewall/router) so that this would not be an issue any longer. The DHCP server will get an IP from the same place his 1st PC is getting an IP address from...either a dorm room switch, DSL, cable, satellite, wireles, or whatever is issuing it out to him.

Where does he say that he is using an IP instead if a name? He said he was connecting to the website, receiving data (Quote of the day) and then being d/c'd. As for the DHCP, why would anyone setup a DHCP server to receive an dynamic IP adress? Or a DC, or even a member server? Servers should alsways have a static address. And if he is already connected to an existing network with a DHCP server, logically he isn't going to be able to put another DHCP server on the network, because then he'd need to create a scope of new adresses and authorise them into AD etc... Seems like a lot of hassle for two IP's
 
In all fairness though we need more information to draw a conclusion.
 
What sort of network, can he connect without errors, what changes have been made to the machines etc...
 
I'm still going to go with a hardware fault, either on the computers or external, like at the ISP.
 
How about an update Lotus?

I'd be curious as to how many people here have a static IP address for their home broadband (or dorm room) connection. I've never had one and have been using Dynamic DNS (DYDNS) for about 3 years. He said his 'roommate' which leads me to think that he is a home user, not a business or corporate user, who can afford to pay a hefty price here in the US for a static IP. Just for instance, Time Warner Cable charges a bit over $125 per month just for a static IP and connection, whereas a standard broadband account (same as above) with a dynamic IP is only $44.95. DSL from the phone company is about the same price as above for both a business ($129) and home users($44.95).
I'd agree 100% about not having a server rely solely on DHCP and to have static IP's for a corporate environment. A home environment, DYDNS is about the best we can do.
 
Anyway, where is this guy? I haven't seen a post from him since the first day!!
 
I'm not trying to get into a pis*ing match (no pun intended) just wanted to let them know what worked for me.

Nor I, this is the one message board I come to that I don't flame at. And I suspect we are talking about different perspectives of his problem. I guess we won't know until he replies.
 
Ciao