Windows Settings and Ports?

[chaohuei]

A couple of weeks ago, I've noticed that the network would spontaneously halt. Usually, webpages are fine, but both telnet and IRC have been disabled, it seems. We usually have three computers on the network: 2 desktops and one laptop with a third PC that sometimes substitutes for the second. My cousin's desktop has yet to experience the problems while the Powerbook (on a wireless connection) sometimes loses its ability to use Telnet. The last PC (which is interchanged with my new computer, which has yet to maintain a stable connection) often suffers the most. It seems that the signal is sent out; ZoneAlarm catches that. However, nothing gets through. My cousin's pretty sure he set up the router correctly; all was fine as far as I could tell until I tried putting my computer on the network.

Proggies that don't seem to work: Telnet (on 6112, as instructed by Blizzard, though it seems that no one there has an answer to my problem), IRC (6667-7000), WarCraft IIII (6112-6119)

All three desktops are on Windows XP Pro. Mine is the only one with a firewall, ZoneAlarm, but I only installed that three days ago and the problem existed before that was installed. The router we use is a Linksys WRT54G.

BTW, I don't have access to the router settings, so it may be tough to gauge those. However, because stuff seems to work completely fine on my cousin's comp and not mine, I wonder if it's some computer settings instead.

My apologies if this was covered; I wasn't sure what to search under.

 

[martind1]

you cant telnet out?

what do you mean your network comes to a 'halt'?

nmi

 

[chaohuei]

When I try to telnet to uswest.battle.net on 6112, it never gets past the "Connecting to ..." screen. It keeps timing out. Same thing happens with the Powerbook, though PC 1 (see crappy diagram below) is fine. And when I mean the network dies, everything other than standard web browsing seems to stop altogether. IMs, IRC, etc. don't even connect. It's rare, but does happen occasionally. It's more the problem of not being able to connect to any IRC server or Blizzard's realms that bothers me personally.

PC 2/3 -------Router -------------Cable modem
|
Hub--------PC 1 (Fully functional)

Powerbook (on wireless)

That's roughly how we're set up, if it's any help.