Re: Intermittent connection problems

It's highly unlikely that your smoothie is the cause of the problem. Since your
problems started since you installed XP+sp2, my guess is that your XP box is
the one causing issues.

--- "Alston, Steve" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've used Smoothwall for a couple of years now with no problems however I've
> been having this intermittent problem for a few weeks now.
> 
> I have a smoothie 2 with fixes 4 on a P133 with a 130M ram and a 2Gb HD
> connected through an STB to  The ACT's Transact network (My ISP is Netspeed)
> 
> The whole system is usually totally reliable but since I rebuilt my PC with
> XP+SP2, I lose http connections and/or can't connect to the ISP email
> servers.
> 
> I can often read my mail using webmail in Firefox when Thunderbird is telling
> me the mail server is unavailable. Or download mail when the browser doesn't
> work. Or update software like Norton's utillities when mail and browsing
> refuse to work.
> 
> At first I assumed that the ISP's DNS server was playing up but swapping to
> others doesn't help.
> 
> The XP box is fairly std and protected (SP2, Zonealarm free, Avast! AV,
> SpybotSD etc) so I can't really see that being a problem, particularly since
> the problem seems to occur with my XP laptop too.
> 
> I was coming to the conclusion that there may be a hardware problem
> somewhere,
> but since I usually get some connectivity that seems unlikely.
> 
> The logs don't seem to show anything unusual.  Is there any possiblity of
> smoothie randomly stopping valid traffic?
> 
> Any other suggestions at all?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
> 
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