E-Bay not opening on AllTel DSL

[mitchkill]

Hello,
I have an Alltel DSL connection through a SpeedStream modem. My goal here is to connect the SpeedStream modem to a desktop and use the Internet Connection Sharing of XP Home to supply the internet connection to a laptop. The network setup that we have right now is a Belkin Wireless transmitter and receiver. Many sites work fine on the laptop, but when we try to get on E-Bay or log into our internet banking site, the browser just kind of treads water. On the desktop, we can access everything. Now the strange part is that we did have the modem on the laptop with the same wireless networking and we could access all of the siteson the desktop. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

Mitchell
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved."

 

[bcastner]

Turn off the XP firewall.

 

[smah]

check for a file named 'hosts' on the laptop. If found, open it with Notepad and if eBay is listed, delete it.

 

[mitchkill]

Well, it still does not work even though I tried both solutions. There are other sites it will not pick up either, such as google. I cannot see what all of the sites that it refuses to bring up have in common. I was thinking that they were all secured servers but they are not. Here is an interesting tidbit: When the modem was hooked to the laptop, we were geting a rate of 100.0 mbps now tat it is hooked to the desktop we are getting 11.0 mbps. The speed has not slowed at all, but is this an ndicatoin of some kind of problem somewhere? Thanks for the help!

Mitchell Killian
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Romans 10:9

 

[smah]

The 11.0Mbps is the wireless connection speed and this is still considerably faster than your actual dsl throughput, so this is correct. Have you run adaware or spybot on the laptop lately?

ad-aware

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2144-10186632.html?tag=lst-0-3

spybot

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2144-10194058.html?tag=lst-0-1

 

[bcastner]

This will sound like a remarkably silly suggestion, but your system date and time must be nearly exact for access to secured sites.

I just got off the phone with someone complaining about the same issue, and because their daylight savings time setting was incorrect there system clock was as well.

They set the date and time correctly and then had no problem.

One other possible "gotcha" is that the IE security settings for the Internet are too high, or the site they wanted was entered as a secure site incorrectly. Look carefully under IE, Tools, Internet Options, Security tab, Custom for the Internet zone. Set everything as low as possible to start, and make certain that no sites have been entered as insecure and blocked.