Discovered something quite interesting today and I thought I'd pass it onto my fellow BITOG'ers.
I have the following setup:
Time Warner Roadrunner. Linksys G router.
Dell 2400 desktop running XP SP3 hardwired to router.
Dell XPS M140 laptop running XP SP3 wireless.
Sony Vaio laptop running Vista SP1 wireless.
Gateway laptop running Vista SP1 wireless.
2 days ago the internet access speed for all the machines went to heck. I'm talking down to nearly 56K speeds. I found that if I powered down the router and brought it back up the access speed for the desktop and Dell laptop returned to normal. But after 5 minutes or so went right back down. I checked the desktop and it was sitting idle. Same with Dell laptop. Checked the Sony, same. Went to the Gateway and discovered it was polling the network like crazy. It appeared to be bogging down the entire network. Long story short...kid installed "system monitor" gadget for the Windows sidebar right from the Microsoft site. This little gadget was blowing up the network with it's constant polling. Disabled it and all returned to normal. Ain't that interesting?
I have the following setup:
Time Warner Roadrunner. Linksys G router.
Dell 2400 desktop running XP SP3 hardwired to router.
Dell XPS M140 laptop running XP SP3 wireless.
Sony Vaio laptop running Vista SP1 wireless.
Gateway laptop running Vista SP1 wireless.
2 days ago the internet access speed for all the machines went to heck. I'm talking down to nearly 56K speeds. I found that if I powered down the router and brought it back up the access speed for the desktop and Dell laptop returned to normal. But after 5 minutes or so went right back down. I checked the desktop and it was sitting idle. Same with Dell laptop. Checked the Sony, same. Went to the Gateway and discovered it was polling the network like crazy. It appeared to be bogging down the entire network. Long story short...kid installed "system monitor" gadget for the Windows sidebar right from the Microsoft site. This little gadget was blowing up the network with it's constant polling. Disabled it and all returned to normal. Ain't that interesting?