Re: Intermittently Losing LAN/High Speed Internet Connection PLEASE H

I have a similar problem. I have a laptop that I connect to my home desktop
by LAN. Laptop has WinXP Pro, desktop WinXP Home. It works. I try to do the
same also to my woman's LAN (a different one), but sometimes PCs see each
other, sometimes they don't. I use a simple BAT to change the configuration
of laptop to access a LAN or another. In both cases I use ONLY static IP
addresses, no DHCP (nor I want). I verified cables, hub and firewalls. None
of them is responsible of problem. It looks like in the connection there is
some parameter other than IP address, mask, and the other classic
parameters, that prevent communication.

Is there any tool I can use to monitor binding to try to understand what's
wrong? I spent months on this problem. I have a lot of friends in the same
situation: having a WinXP communicating with another WinXP is just a matter
of luck. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, even in the same LAN and
with the same configurations. The wizard is useful ONLY if you have ONLY
desktop PCs, that is you have not laptops that sometimes connect to a LAN,
sometimes to another. From networking point of view WinXP is really a mess.
I hate its inability to simply network.

FM