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Re: [OM] XP networking - it was the @$%^* router after all

Subject: Re: [OM] XP networking - it was the @$%^* router after all
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 07:38:48 +0200
Phew - we can all sleep again!
Jez

On 02/08/2011, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just finished installing a new NetGear wireless router in place of the
> aging Motorola that was causing me (and very many of you helpful souls)
> incredible grief.  After all that... $39 fixed the problem.
>
> That it was successful was known pretty much immediately.  Pings by name
> to both computers worked as expected.  Both can see the computers in the
> workgroup.  And I was just viewing photos my wife took in London and
> stored on the laptop... from my desktop machine across the hall.
>
> Most amazing of all, I had previously removed the driver for the new
> laser printer from the laptop figuring I'd have to reinstall it.  Nope.
>   The laptop saw the new printer on the net and printed a double sided
> document for me straight away with no driver installation.  I've always
> done it but perhaps I've never really needed to install printer drivers
> on the computers other than where the printer is installed.
>
> Special thanks to all of you who thought long and hard about this and
> kept feeding me with thoughts and things to try.  This list is just
> something else.  And my apologies to all you other suffering souls from
> all the heavy OT traffic here.
>
> Finally, I must say a thankyou to Jim who pestered me off-list both last
> night and this morning about trying a shorter cable on the laptop.  That
> wasn't the solution to the problem but it was while trying the short,
> long and then short again cables that I noticed that the short cable was
> successful on the first go.  But then I tried it again later and it
> failed.  That's what convinced me that it was worth it to go buy a new
> router even if it proved not to be the real problem.
>
> I'm happy, happy, happy.  It's been a long 3 days of frustration.  Many
> thanks again to all.
>
> Back to camera gear.  :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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