my laptop wont work round the ladyfriends gaff

[Igorian]

Hi, soz, CIS have been keeping me busy.

This thread has got a tad confusing. Which problem are we working on first?

You biggest problem is that you changed too many things at the same time and most likely unnecessarily.

If you can access the wanadoo website via dialup, but you can't get email, then the best way to fix it is to log into your wanadoo account and download the script they provide to automatically configure OE.

Automatic logins are handles by cookies. Have you cleared them from your PC while trying to fix this problem?

The only encryption worth bothering with on a home router is WPA. Both WEP and MAC address filtering are hackable (although they are better than nothing and will deflect all but the serious hacker. Where do you live ). Turning off SSID is a good idea.

If you need specific help, post again, but let's do one thing at a time. I'm a bit tied up this week, but will look in when I can.

 

[skybluescooby]

And I don't understand why you're chasing faults that have gone away.
Lets put it this way, your out driving in your car and all of a sudden it stops, you turn the ignition off, retstart and its back to normal again, Next morning it runs fine then out of the blue it stops, you turn it off and restart but this time it wont.. a few attempts at restarting at it starts. Would you just not worry about the problem whilst its driving or would you seek advice from those that know as to why its doing this.

As for the unsecured post, Lets go back to the car scenario, your dash readout says passenger door unsecured but you look at it and it looks closed and secure. This new fangled device that stops intruders from getting into your car is something you have not researched into yet but as the dash states its unsecured and it looks closed to you so must be secure, then surely its best to ask someone with the knowledge.

Get my point...

The router has been in use since May 05 and always ran as a secured connection, the emails never failed during the send receive command and all registered sites allowed me to log in without having to use passwords as these had been saved on the first visit.

Thanks for your time on this, guess i'll just take it to a pc specialist.

breezer, like the batman post.

 

[skybluescooby]

Hi Igorian,
Thanks for that advice, the cookies issue has been resolved,
The issue i have is that i keep on getting the (554 recipient address rejected access denied) error message when using office outlook .
I think its sorted now as i have logged in successfully this morning, however it's an error that comes unannounced.
Will post if it happens again and await your advice.
Thanks

 

[Softus]

And I don't understand why you're chasing faults that have gone away.

Lets put it this way, your out driving in your car and all of a sudden it stops, you turn the ignition off, retstart and its back to normal again, Next morning it runs fine then out of the blue it stops, you turn it off and restart but this time it wont.. a few attempts at restarting at it starts. Would you just not worry about the problem whilst its driving or would you seek advice from those that know as to why its doing this.

Since you ask, I wouldn't worry at all, I'd do the following:
Inspect all accessible connections and check for tightness. If no fault was found, then I'd wait for the problem to recur, then start fault-finding. What I would not do is arbitrarily change things that I don't understand, in the vain hope that I'm fixing something. If you ask your own car mechanic then you'll get exactly the same answer.

As for the unsecured post, Lets go back to the car scenario, your dash readout says passenger door unsecured but you look at it and it looks closed and secure. This new fangled device that stops intruders from getting into your car is something you have not researched into yet but as the dash states its unsecured and it looks closed to you so must be secure, then surely its best to ask someone with the knowledge.

Get my point...

Your point seems to be that you asked help from someone with the knowledge. My point is that you didn't - you changed things. As per Igorian's observation, it sounds like you've changed a whole bunch of things that didn't need changing, and doing so has confused the issue several fold.

Thanks for your time on this, guess i'll just take it to a pc specialist.

A PC specialist would no doubt get everything working, so I guess you've at least learned that you're not one.

 

[Softus]

And I don't understand why you're chasing faults that have gone away.

Lets put it this way, your out driving in your car and all of a sudden it stops, you turn the ignition off, retstart and its back to normal again, Next morning it runs fine then out of the blue it stops, you turn it off and restart but this time it wont.. a few attempts at restarting at it starts. Would you just not worry about the problem whilst its driving or would you seek advice from those that know as to why its doing this.

Since you ask, I wouldn't worry at all, I'd do the following:
Inspect all accessible connections and check for tightness. If no fault was found, then I'd wait for the problem to recur, then start fault-finding. What I would not do is arbitrarily change things that I don't understand, in the vain hope that I'm fixing something. If you ask your own car mechanic then you'll get exactly the same answer.

As for the unsecured post, Lets go back to the car scenario, your dash readout says passenger door unsecured but you look at it and it looks closed and secure. This new fangled device that stops intruders from getting into your car is something you have not researched into yet but as the dash states its unsecured and it looks closed to you so must be secure, then surely its best to ask someone with the knowledge.

Get my point...

Your point seems to be that you asked help from someone with the knowledge. My point is that you didn't - you changed things. As per Igorian's observation, it sounds like you've changed a whole bunch of things that didn't need changing, and doing so has confused the issue several fold.

Thanks for your time on this, guess i'll just take it to a pc specialist.

A PC specialist would no doubt get everything working, so I guess you've at least learned that you're not one.