Nothing on port 80, everything else ok

[TiG]

kk done.

TiG

[Fatboy40]

I'm going to bring home one of our loan Dell D5xx laptop tomorrow and see if that works, I'd bet money that it will, grrr !.

Guess what, it connected with no probs and let be browse to my hearts content

[TiG]

Well those traces confirm what i thought. I'm seeing nothing coming back to your request.

I can you see you typing in GET heh, and the ACK's response in reciept of you typing in.

But Its very wierd indeed,you appear to be then getting a response indicating the remote end doesn't get your request and is asking for a retransmit that never comes.

TiG

[xAmritx]

GAH!!! There used to be a small software called dynamitethis or dynamitemem but i cant remeber its name and source.
This software shows you what processes are assigned to startup and are currently running
If someone can remember the name maybe he can run it and post the text file that is generated on here. I used to use it when i used to find suspicous stuff on Windows ME (yes i know ME SUCKS!)


Have you tried using the hardware manufacturers software? I was hoping u was currently as i just sorted a laptop with conflicts between windows xp and the wifi cards manufacturers software.

[Fatboy40]

But Its very wierd indeed,you appear to be then getting a response indicating the remote end doesn't get your request and is asking for a retransmit that never comes.

TiG

Thanks for that TiG

Do you think this would be a PC, router or ISP related problem ?.

[Fatboy40]

Have you tried using the hardware manufacturers software? I was hoping u was currently as i just sorted a laptop with conflicts between windows xp and the wifi cards manufacturers software.

My laptop uses Intel 2200BG hardware for its wireless, I don't have the PROset software installed just the latest driver.

I suppose that there's no harm in installing it and giving it a try but I doubt that it will make any difference at all...

[TiG]

Well from the traces everything looks as i expected, i see only one response to the requests, basically saying re-transmit, then nothing else happens.

I don't know why but this is definitely something pretty broken for this to happen.

Out of interest you got any mail software or anything else that uses a TCP connection you can test with. I'm interested if its the TCP elements that are indeed broken.

Also any games that use UDP would also be interesting to test.

Because ICMP (ping/tracert) are completely fine.

in rofl harris styley "DO you know what it is yet" Nope but i've got this cricket bat ready

TiG

[Fatboy40]

TiG,

I'll install some bits and pieces on the laptop to test and have a fiddle over the weekend (fnar fnar)

[nutter99]

Its a long shot but i've had some very strange problems with my in-laws laptop and wireless.

After much searching on that problem, I found that the WZC service can fail but without any warning or notice that it has. Browsing then fails although the laptop/PC will appear as normal if checking the systray etc.

Just restart the service worked fine. Id never heard of it personally so its obscure enough to give a go

Another thing to try is rebuilding the TCP/IP stack, i dont have a link to hand now but I did download an MS prog that did this for you to repair connections, again this might help (as it sounds like only the incoming data is being lost).

One other thing, and this isnt meant to insult your's or anyone else's intelligence but I dont ever assume ive done everything and to discount it. Whenever I have in the past ive spent hours on a problem only to find out the network cable wasnt plugged in or something similarly simple that would have saved me hours of pain. Saying that it does sound like youve been extremely dilligent on this one!

Lol yes silly me, yet another before I click reply, check the hosts file, ive seen viruses etc that redirect this to localhost (i know youve put on AVG put still a remote possibility)

Another idea from my colleague, check for MAC address restrictions on the router, ive seen routers where you could specify that certain services dont work

[Fatboy40]

nutter99,

Don't worry about stating the obvious, many a time I've presumed that a problem was complicated and serious when the fix was so simple I never noticed it

Found out how to rebuild the TCP/IP stack, will try this after watching the last two episodes of Lost tonight with the Mrs (downloaded happily on my desktop PC using Azureus, more proof that my WIFi setup/Netgear DG834G router is being a good boy)...

[b0redom]

Did you try uninstalling the virtualisation software?

[rolfharris]

in rofl harris styley "DO you know what it is yet" Nope but i've got this cricket bat ready

I've trademarked that line I'll have you know

I had a similar issue last night at a clients house. Router said they had a WAN IP etc and I could tracert, ping and get IP addresses externally but web traffic was not working and pages would not load.

I had to do a master reset on the router and then it worked once I input the username and password and wireless settings.

Alas, your browsing on other systems so that rules that issue out - good luck on fixing the issue I know I personally would have got bored and fedup long ago and broken something by now.