A Lan Connection problem-ette

[Modex]

Hi all

Has anyone come across this before and more to the point does anyone know why it happens and what the solution is.

I am using Windows 2000 Pro and for my sins AOL to connect to the internet via modem.

I have a LAN at home with a few machines.

The problem is if I go to network Neighbourhood on the machine running AOL it takes forever and a day to find the workgroup, then it takes the same amount of time to find the machines on the network and then again to find the shared resources on a particular machine.

If I do the same thing from any other machine in the network, the Network Neighbourhood, workgroup, Machine names and resources appear instantly as I would expect.

Its almost as if when looking at network neighbourhood from the "AOL" machine, its trying to get out on to the internet to find whats out there as well, although I do not get any messages from my firewall (Zone Alarm) to say that Explorer is trying to access the internet.

Any help on this would be warmly received as its a problem Ive had for some time now and have just put up with it.

Cheers

ModeX

 

[Zelandakh]

sounds like a routing issue.

Do you need internet connection sharing across the AOL link? If not check that's disabled. Check binding order and protocols for the NICs and remove anything you don't need.

Consider getting a proper ISP...