Internet connection problems

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Hi all,

I've been having problems with my dial-up connection since installing
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2. As far as I can recall everything
was working fine until I installed SP2 but now this is what happens (without
fail) every time I connect to the internet:

* I connect as usual & everything works fine for a few minutes ie: web pages
are viewable as normal, email sends/receives ok.
* Then after a very short period my connection will be useless - it doesn't
drop out but won't let me do ANYthing with it, I can't view ANY web pages &
I can't send./receive email or view newsgroups. I can fix the problem by
disconnecting then reconnecting but in the last couple of days I've had to
make maybe 10 phone calls a day to try to get a decent connection for any
one period of time. I'm constantly having to disconnect & reconnect - every
five minutes @ present.
Can anyone PLEASE help to solve this problem? I've contacted TPG (my ISP in
Australia) & am waiting for them to respond but any advice is appreciated,
thanks everyone.

Thanks,
Chris

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Try uninstalling SP2 and see if that fixes your problem. If it does not, its
probably your ISP.


"Kingy75" <kingy75@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
news:Oil1SRKEFHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I've been having problems with my dial-up connection since installing
> Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2. As far as I can recall everything
> was working fine until I installed SP2 but now this is what happens
> (without fail) every time I connect to the internet:
>
> * I connect as usual & everything works fine for a few minutes ie: web
> pages are viewable as normal, email sends/receives ok.
> * Then after a very short period my connection will be useless - it
> doesn't drop out but won't let me do ANYthing with it, I can't view ANY
> web pages & I can't send./receive email or view newsgroups. I can fix the
> problem by disconnecting then reconnecting but in the last couple of days
> I've had to make maybe 10 phone calls a day to try to get a decent
> connection for any one period of time. I'm constantly having to disconnect
> & reconnect - every five minutes @ present.
> Can anyone PLEASE help to solve this problem? I've contacted TPG (my ISP
> in Australia) & am waiting for them to respond but any advice is
> appreciated, thanks everyone.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>