Thank you for the "education," but I'm a network professional and understand
the protocols. I notice now that your are in Australia and it appears
things are different there. Here in the US cable broadband rarely, if ever,
uses PPPOE. Most, though not all, DSL connections do.
Since you have no problem with the router, there would seem to be
communication problem between the computer and cable modem. Although not
strictly applicable you might take a look at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us
If that's no help you might try a different NIC. There aren't a lot of 64
bit drivers out yet and some are flaky.
Good luck.
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"SageAdvice" <SageAdvice@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> GTS, thanks for replying, but for for eductaionPPPoE means Point to Point
> Protocol over Ethernet. Is is how all cable/DSL connections work. The
> alternative is PPPoA (over analogue) which is sometimes used for ADSL
> (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line). Cable connections are inherently
> DSL.
> A cable router makes the PPPoE connection for you, thus enabling one ISP
> connection to a) be always on regardless of any PC being on and b) be
> shared
> amongst several PC without a specific PC being turned on. In the absence
> of a
> router one can use a "dial up" connection from within Windows to make the
> connection. In XP and Vista this uses a WAN (Wide Area Network) miniport
> (virtual hardware) to make the PPPoE connection. That is, the WAN miniport
> does the job of the router.
>
> "GTS" wrote:
> Quote:
>> I've never heard of using PPPoE for cable broadband. That's normally
>> only
>> used for DSL. Is your router configured for PPPoE? Wth most cable
>> systems
>> the default local connection just works directly.
>>
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>> "SageAdvice" <SageAdvice@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:88FA40FF-E76A-45BC-B56F-1AACE9C2178C@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > Visat Home Premium 64 bit. WAN Miniport PPPoE configured for a cable
>> > Internet
>> > Connection. Sometimes takes a long time to connect to the Internet, up
>> > to
>> > 5
>> > minutes. Sometimes fails altogether but rarely. Once connected the
>> > network
>> > map shows the PC, connected to Multiple Networks and then connected the
>> > Internet. Often the last link shows a red X but the Internet
>> > connection
>> > actually exists, I can ping web URLs and gain an IP address etc.
>> > However,
>> > when the red X is present web pages cannot be reached use IE7. If the
>> > red
>> > X
>> > is not present some web sites can be accessed but many others start to
>> > load
>> > (eg waiting for www.nab.com.au) but gets no further. Packets are sent
>> > and
>> > received (slowly) but nothing ever displays even after 1 hour. The PC
>> > uses
>> > Pc-Cillin Internet Security. I have turned off the firewall and
>> > phishing
>> > etc,
>> > no help. I have tried Windows Firewall on and off with/without
>> > Pc-Cillin's
>> > firewall. IPCONFIG /all shows the correct IP address for the PPP
>> > adapter
>> > with
>> > a subnet mask of 255.255.255.255, but not gateway. The Ethernet port
>> > shows
>> > the "random" 169.254.276.163 address with 255.255.0.0 subnet and no
>> > gateway.
>> > I have tried setting up a new PPPoE connection using a different
>> > account
>> > with
>> > a different ISP, same thing. If I connect the PC via a router
>> > everything
>> > works just fine, all web sites are accessible. >>
>>