I had a new business contact me about setting up a vpn for remote computers to have direct access to a computer in the office. I figured put a vpn router in and load client software on each of the remote computers. I've tested vpn software called thegreenbow before and it seemed to work great, but comes at a steep price.
I was thinking of putting in a Cisco Small Business router, so I tracked down a download of Cisco's vpn client software only to find out the options available in Cisco's client software do not at all match their Small Business router.
Then I tried installing a free open source vpn client software, of which half-way through the install the computer crashed with a bsod stop error due to this client software. I rebooted and removed this software (at least to the best I thought I had).
But ever since about every 3 to 4 hours the network connection on my computer goes kind-of dead, requiring a reboot. Windows XP, nforce chipset, nforce nic. When the network connection goes "kind-of dead", I am still able to ping everything from a command prompt, but all web browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome) refuse to do anything, I don't even get the animated graphic indicating it is attempting to load pages and waiting for the server to respond.
Is there anything I can attempt before reinstalling Windows? Actually just now I thought to try "netsh int ip reset", will do that and see if given time the network connection stays up. Thanks
I was thinking of putting in a Cisco Small Business router, so I tracked down a download of Cisco's vpn client software only to find out the options available in Cisco's client software do not at all match their Small Business router.
Then I tried installing a free open source vpn client software, of which half-way through the install the computer crashed with a bsod stop error due to this client software. I rebooted and removed this software (at least to the best I thought I had).
But ever since about every 3 to 4 hours the network connection on my computer goes kind-of dead, requiring a reboot. Windows XP, nforce chipset, nforce nic. When the network connection goes "kind-of dead", I am still able to ping everything from a command prompt, but all web browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome) refuse to do anything, I don't even get the animated graphic indicating it is attempting to load pages and waiting for the server to respond.
Is there anything I can attempt before reinstalling Windows? Actually just now I thought to try "netsh int ip reset", will do that and see if given time the network connection stays up. Thanks
