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Old September 12th, 2005
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Default Strange Connection problems, help plz

Basically myself and 3 housemates at uni have just got ourselfs a 2mb adsl line...split 4 ways to 4 pcs..

Internet comes in goes to a BT Voyager 205 Modem...Then to a Netgear WGT624 Router...then out via 3 cables and 1 wireless network to our pcs.

2 People seem to be able to use limewire ok without any problems occuring however when myself and the guy whos on the wireless connection (doubt its related) start up limewire we all get dissconnected from the internet.

On the Voyager modem page the connection is still active and never goes down.

If i'm doing ping google.co.uk -t the pings stop at EXACTLY the same time limewire starts/does a search.

Now i've checked with my isp (Plusnet UK based adsl provider) and they say that they do not limit any ports except 137 and 445 for virus purposes....

I've checked the router and the firewall is turned off and on the modem also...there shouldn't be anything limiting it at all...both the problems are on PCs that have Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 on them. The others are different XP Home i think.

From my point of view its either A) Router problem blocking a port some how or B) Problems on our PCs


Does anybody have any suggestions? read the guides on here and i can't find anything similar really pissing us all off will be very greatful for any help

cheers
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