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Fredledingue

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Please Help!

It can't UPload data to the internet, at least not more than 500 bytes or so.

I can download anything I want, even multimega files, but posting a message on this board or uploading a small file on my perso website or even sending data to a java-scripted webpage is impossible.

When IE tries to do so, my CPU turns on all cylinders at 100% until I press the stop button.

That happened with IE5.5 and upgrading to IE6SP1 and quickely reinstalling w98SE qnd the uSP2.1a and running clamwin antivirus didn't help.

On the other computer that use the same USB/removable D-Link DSL modem, it works normaly.

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Have you tried to restore a backup of the registry ?

Have you noticed any file change with your VB script ?

Does the other machine use the same physical modem or is it just the same brand and model ?

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Fredledingue

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Does this happen only in IE, or other programs cannot upload too?

Try some of the tests here using different browsers.

I will try this test page. But I can already tell that download is great and upload is nearly zero.

So far I used only IE6.0SP1 and Maxthon. The problem already existed with IE5.5 before I upgraded. Both reacts the same way.

I can't connect to my e-mail provider with OE neither. Also something that the other machine does without problem.

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Have you tried to restore a backup of the registry ?

No. What registry should be backed up regarding the internet?

Have you noticed any file change with your VB script ?

I would have loved to. But I started writing this script after and indirectly, because I had this problem. :no:

Does the other machine use the same physical modem or is it just the same brand and model ?

Yes they both use the same physical device: an USB D-Link200. It worked very well before with the same device.

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Have you tried to restore a backup of the registry ?

No. What registry should be backed up regarding the internet?

When I have got that type of problems, usually after installing an internet related utility that has not replaced system files nor added any vxd (I monitor this always), I restore a copy of the registry from the sysbackup folder and I am fine after that.

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eidenk,

how do you do that?

Anyway, I let the PC running for too many day with this problem to be able to roll back anything...

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eidenk,

how do you do that?

Anyway, I let the PC running for too many day with this problem to be able to roll back anything...

Everytime you boot into Windows your registry is automatically backed up if the date of the PC is at least one day ahead of the last backup.

So it should not matter for how long your PC has been on.

But if you did reboot once a day in the last five days, and an error appeared in the registry before that, all your registry backup will contain the error as by default only the last five backups are kept.

I use 30 (Max : 99) so I have at least one month's worth of old registries in any case a problem is not immediately obvious.

Edit the MaxBackupCopies values in scanreg.ini in the windows dir for changing the number of backups if you need.

Also scanreg must be allowed to run at startup (it is by default) otherwise no automatic backups are made : 

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"ScanRegistry"="C:\\WINDOWS\\scanregw.exe /autorun"

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somewan

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Does this happen only in IE, or other programs cannot upload too?

Try some of the tests here using different browsers.

I will try this test page. But I can already tell that download is great and upload is nearly zero.

Transmitted (not received) packets are generally much larger and

much more frequent while uploading. I suspect that may be

triggering the symptoms, so it might be a good idea to check the

networking parameters very carefully. That's where a registry

backup might come in handy.

Also, the statistics generated by "netstat -s" might provide

some clue.

Another exciting experiment is to check for the same problem in

a different operating system, or a different W98 install. If that

works well, it's a very likely to be a config issue. Otherwise, the

problem is external to your PC.

Have you tried to restore a backup of the registry ?

No. What registry should be backed up regarding the internet?

Surely you know that Win95+ is in the habit of storing all sorts

of stuff in the registry... not just your credit card number and

your mother's maiden name, but also details about hardware

configuration and TCP/IP parameters!

Have you noticed any file change with your VB script ?

I would have loved to. But I started writing this script after and indirectly, because I had this problem. :no:

Ideally, one would always have a recent and trusted backup make

comparisons against, or failing that, a collection of MD5 or SHA hashes,,

but as we all know, such items are never there for you when you need

them. So here's a quick&dirty trick I often use instead, and which

usually helps:

C:\>find -ctime -5
... list of files "created" (or at least "changed") 
..... within the past 5 days
C:\>find -time -2
... list of files "modified"...

"find" is the DJGPP (32-bit DOS) port of the GNU clone of

the essential Unix "find" utility. Get it from any DJGPP mirror

site or from my VAX:

ftp://ftp.narpes.com/pub/util/dos/unix/gnu

Does the other machine use the same physical modem or is it just the same brand and model ?

Yes they both use the same physical device: an USB D-Link200. It worked very well before with the same device.

A-ha! That explains it! You're using one of those cheap rubbish USB devices,

mass-produced for the "consumer" market! Try upgrading to a real router from

Cisco, Foundry, or Juniper Networks, and upgrade your Internet connection to

fibre - at least 100 Mbps. Tell us whether the problems persist. :P

Mostly kidding about that... however, you should verify that it's not the

modem's fault. Try it on a different machine, for instance.

The hardware deficiencies of USB are most probably not responsible for

your upload difficulties... but I can't resist the opportunity for a side note:

a few days ago learned about one more USB "feature": you can connect two

computers with a regular serial cable, a parallel cable, an Ethernet cable, a

Firewire cable or even with a SCSI-cable, but you had better not attempt such a

connection with an USB cable unless you're willing to risk damaging your hardware.

The reason is that "there can be only one" - one host/master/controller/whatever

node - on an USB bus. For connecting two hosts (e.g. two computers), you

need a middle man (or "bridge") to make them get along. (Take a look at this

site for information on not only USB, but many other interfaces too:

http://www.epanorama.net/links/pc_interface.html )

In the case of Windows 98 and USB, theree is a lot to be said, but I'll try

to resist the temptation an just mention NTKERN.VXD. Although it's a genuine

native Win/386/3.x/9x VxD kernel module, the functionality it implements is

alien and poorly debugged - just barely enough NT-emulation to fool USB,

Firewire and other "WDM" drivers to run.

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