I bought a computer from a business and it has windows xp professional on it. When trying to connect to the internet it will not recognise the ip address. In talking to and testing from the internet provider it was determined there is a problem in the software that is keeping the signal from going out. In the pinging testing of microsft ping testing it would not go it timed out and four were sent none received and four lost. This i am told is from a sofware problem. I do not know where to look. Anyone got any ideas

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:51:49 +0000, jeno1958 wrote: > I bought a computer from a business and it has windows xp professional on it. When trying to connect to the internet it will not recognise the ip address. In talking to and testing from the internet provider it was determined there is a problem in the software that is keeping the signal from going out. In the pinging testing of microsft ping testing it would not go it timed out and four were sent none received and four lost. This i am told is from a sofware problem. I do not know where to look. Anyone got any ideas If I acquired a used computer, no matter who previously owned it, the first thing I would do with it would be to reinstall the operating system cleanly. You have no idea how the computer has been maintained,what has been installed incorrectly, what is missing, what viruses andspyware there may be, etc. I wouldn't want to live with somebody else's mistakes and problems, possibility of kiddy p0rn, etc., and I wouldn't recommend that anyone else do so either. You're playing with fire if you don't reinstall Windows cleanly. Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

Hi Jack, The problem is that his computer have this issue, all other computer on the networkseem to work fine, delay is about almost instant computer to his computer. Duringweekend when he come into to use the computer, it take forever to seeother computer on the network when only some were needed to be on to runsome testing program. Also, I read that some user have 25 plus computerin a peer to peer network. Any other suggestion are all welcome.

HiTry to optimize the TCP/IP stack, http://www.ezlan.net/Internet_Speed.htmlBTW. This type of issues is almost impossible to solve over forums.On peer-to peer network there info relate to the computers stored on the Router and each computer. XP has master browser considerations too. If IPs are dynamic, they might shift the IP numbers and more, unless someone actually sits there, it is impossible to deal with it.As for the 25 computers peer-to-peer. Many people in this country do drugs, smoke, and over eat, but that does not mean that thses activities are Not health hazards. Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET