You mean like an atm machine? https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/happy.png

I think I could help but it would take sometime and I'd have to rework your entire network setup and LAN connection.



In short, you'd have to first delete everything except your LAN Ethernet port. Than install a PPPoE protocol, than route everything (Your network) through the Ethernet port. Mine works perfectly that way.

I have optimum online. That happened to me once. I dunno, its been OK the past week. No network for me BTW, yet.

Genius, pure genius. What are you, some type of goy benius? Hehe. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

Next time it happens why don't you open up a command prompt and try resolve some hostnames directly to try and see if your dns is the issue?



You can also try pinging the DNS servers directly when it happens, you just have to look in the network settings to figure out the address(es) of them. If they're unreachable when it happens phinshup is right.

You would also want to ping other things like your gateway for instance to see if the packets are stopping before even getting out past your network (but you say AIM and nopistons still work so thats probably not the case.)

that always happenens here with my Windows XP(lode) on Linksys Router with Time Warner Cable..

My culprit is that damned software Firewall proffie called Zone Alarm.

It gets fixed with me shutting it down, and restarting it.

Are you sure that your cache size isnt set terribly low? Or that your sercurtiy is set to high?

Go into the tools on your browser >internet options>privacy and set the bar down in the middle. If it's to high it wont allow you to view web pages that use cookies.

I understand that nopistons does but, give it a try.

OK my cable is out right now. No web, no AIM no nothin. Luckily my parents havent shut off the dial up yet. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png Anyway, I have an IP sniffer and was snoopin around. Normally there is a lot of TCP packets and some ARP. While its down tho I get all ARP packets and thats it. Is this a symptom of anything specific?

Yeah, ARP is Address Resolution Protocol. It's a protocol that's used to determine the IP address of something if the MAC address is known.



Do you have a network? If so, it sounds like another computer is sending the ARP packets to your computer in order to match an IP to a network address. ARP packets are broadcast packets, meaning that all the computers on the network would receive them and try to find a matching IP address. But it seems to be failing if you keep getting them over and over again.



Umm, does that help any? I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.



*By the way, the statement in your sig is awesome*

Yeah, I dont know too much about computers. I do know that we don't have a home network. And I know I'm getting way more ARP's then normal, there coming from cisco I think ( cisco is the source). Other than that I dunno.