From Desktop loading takes 4mins to open wireless connection

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Tony Exton - 10 October 2008 - 9:15pm

I have a Dell Dimension 9150 with a WG311v3 802.11g card, running XP Media Centre Edition 2005, SP3, Bitdefender and Spysweeper on a home network from a BT Hub. Signal is 100% at 54Mbps. Router download speed is 7116Mbps from BT.

When the desktop loads it takes 4mins before the w/less card icon appears in the system tray and connects to the router. Meanwhile the taskbar is totally inactive, but I can use programmes from the desktop that do not need internet.

This suddenly happened about 4 wks ago. I have run processes to establish I have no malware or viruses, and my firewall and antispyware and antivirus programmmes do not cause this. My start up is only 5 processes.

There is another Dell pc beside mine on the network that has no problems. I have interchanged the cards but the situation is the same.

In Admin Tools....System Tools/Event Viewer/System, I see error log code 3095 re Netlogon configuration.

How can I sort this?

Wireless logon

Isitme - 14 October 2008 - 11:26am

I assume you are set up to 'Obtain an IP address automatically'. Try giving your PC a fixed IP address, see if this solves the problem. I don't know much about the Home Hub, but it should be possible to reserve the address in the router so that it is not given to another device.

TomD

wireless logon

Tony Exton - 25 October 2008 - 12:13pm

Thanks. Sorry no to have replied before but I have been away.

I'll give it a try.

Tonyex, using a Dell Dimension 9150 Media Centre, XP PRO SP3, BT Hub, BitDefender, SpySweeper.

Logon

Isitme - 28 October 2008 - 1:10pm

You might also want to check in System Properties that you are set as a Workgroup and in Computer Management Services that the Network services are enabled.

TomD

Thanks, Tom. All network

Tony Exton - 29 October 2008 - 7:57pm

Thanks, Tom. All network services are enabled. There is nothing showing in System Properties!

Tonyex, using a Dell Dimension 9150 Media Centre, XP PRO SP3, BT Hub, BitDefender, SpySweeper.

wireless logon

Tony Exton - 1 November 2008 - 5:15pm

Have now used a fixed IP address and am relieved to say that this has cured the problem!

However I'm no nearer to finding the cause of the problem. If I find out I'll let you know.

Tonyex, using a Dell Dimension 9150 Media Centre, XP PRO SP3, BT Hub, BitDefender, SpySweeper.

DNS Cache settings. 4 minute

pca_Burn-IT - 1 November 2008 - 6:12pm

DNS Cache settings.

4 minute delay. Look it up on Google

And I found this from a few years ago. !!!!!!!

http://forums.techguy.org/t282642.html

Dave Burnett Microsoft MVP Shell/User (see http//mvp.support.microsoft.com/ )
God doesn't play dice Does that mean I was supposed to be like this??

Thanks. Interesting will

Tony Exton - 15 November 2008 - 5:12pm

Thanks. Interesting will give it a go.

Tonyex, using a Dell Dimension 9150 Media Centre, XP PRO SP3, BT Hub, BitDefender, SpySweeper.

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