From: John Beckett 

With everything connected, at command prompt run: ipconfig /all
(assuming NT/W2k/XP).

I wonder if you might have two default gateways (probably bad).

For completeness, you could also run route print
where default gateways show as Destination 0.0.0.0 and Netmask 0.0.0.0.

Write down the IP of your problem news server (e.g. ping the name of the
news server and note the IP). When the problem occurs, run: tracert  -d 
x.x.x.x
where x.x.x.x is the IP of the failing news server. Compare the path taken
with the path when there are no problems.

John

"David Blair"  wrote in message
news::
> This is weird. Can't get ISP to help, because I don't have their home
> networking package so my hardware is unsupported, and the hardware vendor
> helped as best they could but their reaction is "Hey, it's
working with your
> other servers, so we're not sure what the problem is!"
>
> I have DSL. Speedstream 5360 DSL, and a DLink 614+ Router I used for a
> single wireless machine because I couldn't place it in a position I could
> cable to. Everything else is cabled.
>
> All my newsgroup servers work great EXCEPT my ISP newsgroups. 2 Microsoft, 1
> IBM, and these all work just fine. All my web browsing and email servers
> work just fine. FTP is fine. HOWEVER...
>
> My ISP's news servers are flakier than hell.
>
> During the day, I can generally get semi-reliable service. Outlook express
> will connect up about 85% of the time. News Reactor, about 70% of the time
> if I want to do a binary download. However late at night (note the time I'm
> posting- it's 1 a.m.) I cannot connect at all to the news servers from the
> ISP. When I was working with the level 2 support people from D-Link, I was
> able to get some reaction from the ISP's servers by mucking with the MTU,
> but never any real success.
>
> Add to the strangeness, if I disconnect the DLink and connect straight to my
> secondary Ethernet card, I connect up just fine, but I lose my internet
> connectivity on my downstairs PC, which I need.
>
> The ONLY NNTP servers with issues are the ISP's servers.
>
> The ISP tech guy, before he bitched and moaned about the router, said
> something about my router exposing an IP address back that wasn't the same
> as the ISP's IP address that I was assigned.
>
> Anyone have any insight? It makes no sense to me that at 11 a.m. I can read
> from NNTP servers but not at 11 PM.
>
> David
>
>

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