network prob ?

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Mark Learmouth

Hi,

can some one help please. there are 2 PCs connected to a ADSL router. 1
win98se the other win 2000. The win 2000 has AOL on, which has been set for
netwrok access, and it used to have a dial up connection. The win98 machine
works perfectly. The windows 2000 PC keeps losing its network connection and
attempting to connect to the internet via dialup. Any ideas please, have run
adaware/spybot

Thanks

Mark
 
Are they both connected directly? Usually the ISP will only
let you have on IP and only one direct connection.

If the ADSL router is a DHCP server, do the machines get
addresses? Can you ping it from each? Can they ping each
other?

Do you have them both set to "obtain an IP address automatically"?

Do you have any manual values in the NIC/IP config? (It's bad to
put a default gateway in there unless you are SURE it is right, and
stays right.)
 
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