Net slowdown - very strange!

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David Murray

I've just setup a home network consisting of a Linksys
befsr41 connected to a NTL broadband modem. There are then
3 PC's connected to the router - one running win 98SE, one
running win ME and one on win XP. Now if either, or both,
the 98 and/or the ME machine are on everything is fine.
Shared folders is ok and internet access is great.

If you then turn the XP machine on everything is fine for
the first 10 minutes (whether the 98 and ME machines are
on or not) then the internet suddently slows to a crawl
and becomes completely unuseable. Not only does it affect
the XP machine but also the others as well! The strange
thing is that the shared file access between machines
continues to run fine - it's only the internet thats
affected. Turn the xp machine off and everything goes back
to normal.

I've tried upgrading the router firmware and a factory
reset but no joy. I've also changed the cables and checked
that they are cat5 (Belkin) along with a change of network
card.

Please help - i'm going bold!!!

Your Sincerely

David Murray
 
This happened to me a couple weeks ago. Turns out I had a
malicious worm called W32.Welchia.Worm. Go to the Symantec
web site and download their removal tool. This is the
website link for it:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32
..welchia.worm.removal.tool.html.

What the worm did was send out lots of packets of info out
onto the network, which slowed everything down and even
cause the connection to crash.
Hope that helps.
 
David said:
I've just setup a home network consisting of a Linksys
befsr41 connected to a NTL broadband modem. There are then
3 PC's connected to the router - one running win 98SE, one
running win ME and one on win XP. Now if either, or both,
the 98 and/or the ME machine are on everything is fine.
Shared folders is ok and internet access is great.

If you then turn the XP machine on everything is fine for
the first 10 minutes (whether the 98 and ME machines are
on or not) then the internet suddently slows to a crawl
and becomes completely unuseable. Not only does it affect
the XP machine but also the others as well! The strange
thing is that the shared file access between machines
continues to run fine - it's only the internet thats
affected. Turn the xp machine off and everything goes back
to normal.

I've tried upgrading the router firmware and a factory
reset but no joy. I've also changed the cables and checked
that they are cat5 (Belkin) along with a change of network
card.

Please help - i'm going bold!!!

Your Sincerely

David Murray
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ISTR that XP's PnP for a router ("residential gateway" in M$-speak)
can be rather chatty. Try turning that off (I don't recall how).
 
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