connection problems (intermittent browsing/AIM)

[greenman100]

I have a network connection to the internet, through my school.

Recently, my AIM and IE browsing has been flaky at best. AIM will stop sending and recieving IMs, and I will appear to be signed off to other people, but am signed on at my computer. When I attempt to visit sites through IE, sometimes nothing will happen on the first click, then sites will immediately open on the second click.

Any ideas?

[I.M.O.G.]

What connection type... Are you dialing in? Is it a LAN connection?

[greenman100]

LAN, over 10BaseT Full Duplex.

[I.M.O.G.]

I would call the network people and ask them if they've been having any problems lately. Sounds to me like they are having problems which would explain why you are having problems. :)

[greenman100]

no network problems, and the port works fine on my old lappy with 98SE

[greenman100]

bump for a solution, since it works with the lappy I know it's my desktop

[greenman100]

Okay, so how about this:

I live in a dorm at the University of Florida. It turns out a girl in the building next to mine, same complex, just got a NF7-S.

And we have the same MAC address.

And both motherboards are NF7-S RMAs.

Bit of a QC problem for the ol' Abit?

Furthermore, does anyone know if the white sticker on the left side of the PCI card slots has the MAC address on it? it has 5 2 character groups, and one 4 character group, which makes me think no, but it's so close ot a MAC address.....

[BGPatterson]

Do you have a spare PCI Net Card? You could try that. Weird how they have the same MAC Address... Is there an option to change it in the bios?

[greenman100]

Originally posted by BGPatterson
Do you have a spare PCI Net Card? You could try that. Weird how they have the same MAC Address... Is there an option to change it in the bios?

Yes, and that works fine. I don't think there's a BIOS option, though I could spoof it, but that's against network rules.