internet connection

[valleygreen22]

I either cannot connect to the internet or lose my connection.

I use Earthlink dial up. I have two icons on the taskbar. An eartlink icon indicating a connection and a double monitor with the globe on it.That one indicates access local and internet. The earthlink icon indicates that I have a connection but the other one indicates limited connectivity. It says I have a network connection that is not connected.There are no network connections on my PC.It seems to be pointing to Windows Media Center. I have Vista Home Premium SP1, 2 GB of RAM, AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.30 GHz and a 250 GB HDD. I had this problem when I first got this PC about 14 months ago. Then, for no reason I can tell it just stopped. IT seems to have started again when I installed Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite. I then uninstalled and installed basic Zone Alarm. I then uninstalled that and just used the Windows firewall. Through all this the ability to connect to the internet comes and goes. In the network and sharing center when it's not working there is a connection from the internet icon to the earthlink@username Earthlink icon but no link from there to username-PC this PC icon. Any ideas on how to correct this would be greatly appreciated. I cannot afford high speed at this time.

 

[Neverhavemoney]

See if a program called network magic can help.

www.networkmajic.com
I use it for my internet but i dont have dial-up. I think it works for it though.

 

[Airbot]

I either cannot connect to the internet or lose my connection.

I use Earthlink dial up. I have two icons on the taskbar. An eartlink icon indicating a connection and a double monitor with the globe on it.That one indicates access local and internet. The earthlink icon indicates that I have a connection but the other one indicates limited connectivity. It says I have a network connection that is not connected.There are no network connections on my PC.It seems to be pointing to Windows Media Center. I have Vista Home Premium SP1, 2 GB of RAM, AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.30 GHz and a 250 GB HDD. I had this problem when I first got this PC about 14 months ago. Then, for no reason I can tell it just stopped. IT seems to have started again when I installed Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite. I then uninstalled and installed basic Zone Alarm. I then uninstalled that and just used the Windows firewall. Through all this the ability to connect to the internet comes and goes. In the network and sharing center when it's not working there is a connection from the internet icon to the earthlink@username Earthlink icon but no link from there to username-PC this PC icon. Any ideas on how to correct this would be greatly appreciated. I cannot afford high speed at this time.

Hi valleygreen22,

I believe I know what you're talking about. The windows media player network sharing service will run whenever you start wmp and I think whenever you plug in something like a mp3 player. It will show another network, in mine it's called ME-PC.
WMP will still work if you disable this.
You can disable the WMP network sharing service if you don't ever use it in Services. There are Windows Media Center servives in there that you can configue as well. But this wouldn't have an effect on your connection problems.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/125639-network-discovery-turn-off.html

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/59910-services.html?ltr=S

As to your other connection problem, I do not know. Dial-up can be unreliable at times, it depends on your provider. Try contacting your ISP to see if anything can be done. You can try a network troubleshooting program as Neverhavemoney suggests.

 

[Invictus88]

I either cannot connect to the internet or lose my connection.

I use Earthlink dial up. I have two icons on the taskbar. An eartlink icon indicating a connection and a double monitor with the globe on it.That one indicates access local and internet. The earthlink icon indicates that I have a connection but the other one indicates limited connectivity. It says I have a network connection that is not connected.There are no network connections on my PC.It seems to be pointing to Windows Media Center. I have Vista Home Premium SP1, 2 GB of RAM, AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.30 GHz and a 250 GB HDD. I had this problem when I first got this PC about 14 months ago. Then, for no reason I can tell it just stopped. IT seems to have started again when I installed Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite. I then uninstalled and installed basic Zone Alarm. I then uninstalled that and just used the Windows firewall. Through all this the ability to connect to the internet comes and goes. In the network and sharing center when it's not working there is a connection from the internet icon to the earthlink@username Earthlink icon but no link from there to username-PC this PC icon. Any ideas on how to correct this would be greatly appreciated. I cannot afford high speed at this time.

First, click on Start then type "cmd" into the start search bar and press enter. In the command prompt type ipconfig and press enter, most likely your IP address is 169.254.x.x This means that your computer isn't pulling a valid IP address from your ISP. Most likely it isn't the ISP's fault but your computer. Uninstall all antivirus and firewall products from your computer then try these steps.

Open an elevated command prompt (Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Right click on "Command Prompt" and click Run as Administrator). Inside the box enter these two commands

netsh int ip reset log.txt and press enter
netsh winsock reset and press enter

Next open regedit (Start -> type "regedit" into the start search bar and press enter) and create this registry key, HKEY\LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters and right click in an empty area and go New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value) and then set the value to 255 (in decimal, not hexa) This will disable IPv6 globally.

Restart your computer and reconnect to Earthlink. Check your ip address (like the first paragraph) again and see if it starts with 169 again, if it does your still out of luck. I would double check to make sure Zone Alarm uninstalled correctly. I say this because when I was working at AT&T this is what I was troubleshooting all day and 80% of the time it was antivirus/firewall perpetually breaking the winsock on startup.


Another thing you can try is uninstalling any earthlink software and using the Vista wizard to setup your dialup connection. See Instructions for Dial-Up Setup on Windows Vista - NIU - Information Technology Services for instructions on how to setup dialup via Vista's wizard.

 

[valleygreen22]

Primary and secondary DNS suffix is blank. DHCP enabled "no". IPv4 address 209.x.x.x. Default gateway0.0.0.0. Netbios over tcpip disabled. Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection Media disconnected. Network discovery is off.There is no 169.254.x.x.

I have disabled IPv6. I have set network and sharing to "public". I have disabled the Windows Media Player

In network connections I have three dial up and one high speed showing. I have disabled the high speed but it keeps resetting itself to on.