Please note that this only works for PPPoE connections.
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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