XP home networking and broadband problem.

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Brian

I have two computers, on running XP Pro (which is fine).
And the other which is running XP Home, now when I
connect to the internet with the XP home computer it
stays on for about 5-10 minutes and then I get kicked off
(I tried ipconfig and disabling the adapters, neither
work properly). And when I try to get shared documents
off of the XP home computer with my XP pro computer it
says "the network path cannot be found" when I click on
the computer. What is going on? Any help appreciated,
thanks.
 
Not sure if you have 802.1x authentication turned on.
I had similar problem where I was getting kicked off every
5-10 minutes and per the wireless router/base station
help, this happens due to incorrect security setting and
you need to turn off the 802.1x authentication to stay
connected. It didn't say what the incorrect security
setting is and how to correct this. Once I unchecked
802.1x authentication, I was able to stay connected.
 
Brian said:
I have two computers, on running XP Pro (which is fine).
And the other which is running XP Home, now when I
connect to the internet with the XP home computer it
stays on for about 5-10 minutes and then I get kicked off
(I tried ipconfig and disabling the adapters, neither
work properly). And when I try to get shared documents
off of the XP home computer with my XP pro computer it
says "the network path cannot be found" when I click on
the computer. What is going on? Any help appreciated,
thanks.
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If this is a wired system, it might be the ethernet cable which is
marginally incapable of maintaining a 100Mb/s connection and dies. You
can test this by accessing the NIC properties in Device Manager, and
setting the rate to 10Mb/s. If that works, get a new cable.

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