If your PC is freezing regularly, it may be looking around for a DHCP server that does not exist. Check the following:

If you are not using a router follow these instructions:

If you are Using Windows 9x:

• Open control panel
  

• Open Network
  

• Look for the first entry in the scroll box

  marked TCP/IP, that is associated with a hardware ethernet card (ignore

  dialup, especially Enternet or NTS and VPN type bindings).
  

• (If you have a 4060 USB modem, select "TCP/IP-> Efficient Networks SpeedStream 4060 CIP/1483")
  

• Select it and press properties
  

• Select IP address from the tab
  

• Is Obtain IP address automatically checked?

  If so, change that to Specify an IP address and enter 192.168.1.10, and

  255.255.255.0, into IP address and subnet mask fields respectively.
  

• Click OK and OK, and the computer will build

  a driver information database and will require a reboot for the changes to

  take effect.
  

If you are using Windows XP:

• control panel /network connections /local area connection /properties /Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) /properties.
  

• Then use the following IP address:

  IP Address:	192.168.0.1
  Subnet Mask:	255.255.255.0

  
  

• This assignment of a harmless local IP

  address to the TCP/IP settings bound (connected) to your network adaptor, will

  stop the in-built DHCP services from waking up every 10 minutes to look for a

  DHCP server so that it can "fill in the blanks".
  

This should solve the freezing problem

If you are using a router follow these instructions:

contains specific info for SNET DSL Customers only

For Windows 9x:

• open the control panel
  

• click on network
  

• click on the TCP/IP protocol that is attached to your NIC
  

• click on properties
  

• goto the "IP Address" tab, enter the following values into their respective fields

  IP Address	192.168.1.150 (if you are doing this on more than one computer than the IP's need to be different, just do one # higher in the last set of #'s. (i.e. 192.168.1.151)
  Subnet Mask	255.255.255.0

  
  

• click OK again
  

• should prompt to restart, if it doesn't than manually restart
  

For Windows 2000 and Windows XP:

• Open the control panel
  

• Click on network connections
  

• Click on the LAN connection
  

• Click on TCP/IP and hit the properties button
  

• Click on "Use the following IP address" and enter the following values into their respective fields

  IP Address	192.168.1.250 (if you are doing this on more than one computer than the IP's need to be different, just do one # higher in the last set of #'s. (i.e. 192.168.1.251)
  Subnet Mask	255.255.255.0
  Default Gateway	the address of your router (default for most is 192.168.1.1)

  
  

• Click on "Use the following DNS server" and enter the following values into their respective fields

  Primary DNS Server	68.94.156.1
  Secondary DNS Server	68.94.157.1

  
  

• Click OK and reboot the computer
  

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by Kevin edited by meskinct
last modified: 2008-01-04 07:40:39