Dial-Up Connection Hangs (W98)

[Martowski]

Does anyone know a registry fix for solving issues with hanging dial up connections? I'm not looking for speed enhancements (necessarily), but my dial-up connection will become unresponsive for periods of 30 seconds - 1 minute routinely. It seems that if I try accessing other pages it sometimes "jump starts" the connection, but it's very annoying. It doesn't kick me off or disconnect; it just seems to stall and no data is sent or received. Thanks!

[TonyKlein]

It's not a registry thing.

This courtesy of http://sfwinograd.home.attbi.com/faq.htm (http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/internet_explorer.htm>http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/internet_explorer.htm</a>

Internet)):

Add an IP address to your network card (ie 10.1.1.1) or (192.1.1.1) and the subnet mask 255.255.255.0

Those on a network may prefer to use 192.168.0.1 and subnet 255.255.255.1

To do that go to "Control Panel" then "Network" then "TCP/IP-&gt;you Network card" then "properties" then "Specify an IP address"

The precise settings can be affected by your particular system's setup. Please check out Steve's site or post a query to one of the Microsoft networking newsgroups if the above does not help.

If you are running Win2K, then the following steps are used to assign the static IP to the Local Area Connection:

1. Open Network Connection, open Local Area Connection
2. In the Local Area Connection, click Properties, then double-click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
3. Click "Use the following IP Address" checkbox
4. Enter the IP Address 192.1.1.1 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0
5. Click OK

The precise settings can be affected by your particular system's setup. Please check out Steve's site or post a query to one of the Microsoft networking newsgroups if the above does not help.

[TonyKlein]

Another thing you should do:

Go to Internet Options &gt; Temp. Internet Files &gt; Settings &gt; Show Objects, and examine all ActiveX objects you see there.

Are any objects there marked 'damaged', rightclick them, and choose remove.

Now rightclick each one in turn, chose 'properties', and check the Version tab.

If the company is anyone else but Macromedia, Apple, or Microsoft, rightclick the file, and choose 'remove'.

[mysterywolf]

i would first check to see if its a fault that needs fixing or a pc correctlt following orders that need revising.
e.g.
1.ie,tools,options, general,tmp int files,settings, check for newer pages.... ckick ? and each option to read the blurb so as to pick the one you want.
2. what else could be running like automatic update checking for windows, a-virus, mail or whatever.
3.cache size ( ie temp file big enough).
4. a-virus activity.
5. events from task scheduler.

none of these might be causing it but checking the basics does no harm.

you might also check the resources of the modem ie irq, io mem. if they are shared with another device(s), eg soundcard then you could always create a new hardware profile and disable (but not remove!!!) the audio device to test for any improvement.

all unlikely stuff but sometimes its useful to eliminate suspects.