Hi guys!I am facing a peculiar problem with my 512K Triband connection over a 5-PC network in my office. We run 5 year old Celeron machines on Win2K with the D-link router connected to one of them via ethernet. All PCs are connected to a hub.Of late, we are facing a peculiar problem where the connection normally chokes, or even dies out around 3-3.30pm. Also, connecting to Gmail thru an email client also becomes patchy. Changing the POP and SMTP servers from gmail.com to googlemail.com, and vice-versa, usually helps. Similarly, sometimes I cannot FTP from the other 4 PCs but am able to do so from the PC connected to the router. Same problem while browsing also.Can anybody shed some light on this phenomenon and how to get rid of it?
I have put in a lot of complaints to the 1504 number but nothing to show for it. Even then, the Gmail problem is funny.
well we all know their customer support has always been splendid.
What do you mean that the connection "chokes" ? Can you access other sites or is the gmail website exclusively problematic? Have you checked your internal network? Is your hub dying? Use a network monitor to see what kind of and how many packets are being sent across. If its too much then you connection _will_ choke.
Let me try and answer:By 'choke' I mean that if I browse on a PC connected to the hub (PC1), I get a 'time out' alert but if I start browsing on the PC connected to the router (PC2) then browsing is possible on PC1.Sometimes, restarting the router solves the problem.As far as Gmail is concerned, the web site works fine. The glitches happen during POP/SMTP access. Both, in Thunderbird as well as Outlook (from two diff. PCs).Could it be the hub? It's 5 years old.
When this problem occurs are all the LED's are working specially the status LED which keeps blinking?
LEDs are fine. 192.168.1.1 shows status as 'connected'.