No data/information transfer on dial-up

[lukeb]

Greetings all,
I was setting up a dial-up account for a friend of mine yesterday and ran into a problem that really has me stumped, so I was hoping someone here may have a suggestion. 🙁

I can connect without any problems to the ISP, however there are no bytes being sent from the system (typically the status will look like: BYES RECV: 1,000 - BYTES SENT: 468). According to the individual they bought the system from it was all working for them.

Modem type: U.S. Robotics Courier Everything V 34
System: Compaq Deskpro with Win98 -1st edt I think.

On a side note, the modem drive appears as 'MS Standard Modem Driver', looks to be the default installed by Windows. When connected the connection icon is not displayed in the system tray. The only way to detiremine it is connected is to check in the Dial-up Networking folder.

Thanks for reading, any ideas would be appreciated! 🙂

 

[Davegod]

sorry not much help here, but also check the networking controller under Network Adapters in device mgr. When i first put this machine together after a while i'd lose connection, most noticable in games. the DUN icon would stay in taskbar, but nothing would transmit... eventually figured it out and disabled power saving on the networking controller. I hadnt thought of that because I was using a ISDN TA and not plugging anything into the mobo network port.

 

[lukeb]

Thanks for the reply Dave. I will be checking this to see if that is a possible problem. One thing I forgot to mention, as this is Win98 first edition (I think), I set up the Dial-up account but left all the properties set to 'Default'. Would manually entering the DNS and domain info be a possible cause for this problem or would it not connect at all?

Thanks!

 

[redbeard1]

Can you ping IP addresses on the internet? If you can ping, but not resolve DNS, then you can try these fixes.

Fixes

 

[lukeb]

No websites or IP addresses will ping from the command prompt window. Thank you for the link and reply.