I spent last night building my brothers PC, installed XP & SP2, setup the Netgear WG121 USB wireless adaptor like I did before.
Nothing but problems! My ASDL internet connection randomly drops on both PC's (through a DG834G Wireless Router & ASDL Modem). My brother's PC's wireless just randomly stops as well.
Anyone come across a solution to this problem?
All I can find is people telling me to stop the 'wireless zero configuration' service?
My initial views are: don't unless you feel you absolutely have to!
Some things seems to work so much better, but other's (like wireless networking) have just screwed up something rotten!
No need, I never thought it would be that simple, but I disabled the WZC service and everything seems fine now.
Go figure. Guess I'm just used to Microsoft making every problem super-difficult to solve.
I really wanted the additional security of SP2 as after getting broadband my PC had become a collection tank for every adware/spyware/malware/trojan/dialer app out there on the internet. I spent a whole weekend getting the PC clean and then left it on and connected for one night only to find 33 new detected programs the next day
The DG834G is supposed to have a true SPI (?) firewall built in. I only know how to open and close ports on it, and I think all incoming ports are closed by default.
I really should read the manual I suppose, but there are certain ports that definately need to be open for me that I've set up.
