Recent content by solipsist

Yes, her Win XP machine connects to the Internet through my Mac. When I say "firewall" I mean both the OSX Firewall and the Windows Firewall. There is no protection software running, no AntiSpyware or AntiVirus software present thay could block traffic.

Yes, I can connect to my MSN account with Adium. We tried Trillium and Gaim on her Win XP machine, neither managed to connect to her MSNM account. Firewalls down and all, it's very bizarre. She can connect to Google Talk however, so the Jabber protocol seems fine.

eric: Thanks for posting but we're not using a router, my MB is connected directly to the broadband provider through LAN and PPPoE. Regularly the router would be the first things I'd check, being familiar with configuring routers I know all the problems with setting up port forwarding but this...

MisterMe: "We have tried disabling all firewalls..." eric2006: I'm using the Mac OS X Firewall, and it doesn't work, whether it's off or on, whether I've opened the ports, and I've opened all the ones that I've found reports about and which the Windows machine seems to try accessing.

We sorted the problem with the crossover cable, a new cable fixed it. The old one was damaged but I didn't think that was likely, in my experience a cable either works or it doesn't, there's no middle. Anyhow, we have a new problem. My girlfriend can't log in to Live Messenger or Hotmail from...

srejjcox: Did you manage to find a solution to the problem? We're having the exact same problem over cable Ethernet.

This works for us, problem is just that we have frames and packets loss on the cable. Sounds insane but it's the truth... and no collisions or errors are reported. Copying files and using it for internet sharing is an impossibility at this point. No one seems to know what the problem could be. I...

Apparently the network is extremely unreliable. When I ping the machines it goes fast, the response time is as expected but I get packetloss! Packetloss on a LAN! Something fishy is going on... I'm thinking of replacing the TP cable with a new one but it's strange it could have been damaged...

We have a Mac - Windows network with my MacBook acting as gateway for Internet access. I connect to the Internet by PPPoE through Airport and I share the connection through the cable Ethernet port to my girlfriend's Windows computer. It used to work like a charm but since we reinstalled...