Hi Ronni
Thanks for the info about the ping result. The router should not have
any such blocks.
The Router was set up by the guy I bought it from and he did not
explain what he did. Then when we lost connectivity to the PC (via
AirPort) the son of one of Graham's friends (who worked for iinet at
that stage) came and spent ages trying to make it work. After that we
could connect to the PC but only if the Printer was turned off
because they both wanted the same address. I think he organised it so
all the units had definite addresses instead of them being assigned
each time the router is re-booted. My G4, which has not been on the
Network for over a year, still has the same address.
It is a real mess. I wish I was brave enough to reset it to factory
settings and start again but I am afraid I will be unable to
re-configure it and we will be totally off the air.
When Daniel comes back from holiday I shall ask him to sort it out.
Time to cook the dinner now so I shall give this up until tomorrow.
Cheers for now from Diana
No apologies needed, I hadn't even noticed, and you did spell Ronda
(the Name my Beautiful Mother gave me) correctly.
Most people spell it with a H 'Rhonda'.
I would really like to know why I got the message "Communication
prohibited by filter" when I tried pinging the addresses on our
network from his machine.
Sometimes people don't want their hosts to be pinged and have
configured their routers to block ping-packets.
The reason why it replied "Communication prohibited by filter". That
means that the router was configured to block ping-packets towards
that machine.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 04/01/2010, at 4:53 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:
Hi Ronni, Alan & All
First apologies to Ronni for getting her name wrong, I know she
hates it, she has remarked on it before and I get very peeved that
(despite the Princess) most people write Dianna. A senior moment
from a very hot old lady.
No, he isn't into widgets. He only uses Word, Excel (2004) and
occasionally In Design plus either Firefox or Safari, Eudora for
email and Palm Desktop for calendar. He does not use any of the
utilities like iPhoto, iCal, iTunes etc.
I don't think this is just due to lack of sufficient RAM because
it was not always like this. Also the sites like iinet Home Page
don't ever load completely even when it is the first application
opened after a re-start.
I have tried using the Activity & Network Monitors but I have no
idea what it all means. Is there somewhere I could get an "Idiot's
Guide" to the utilities?
I would really like to know why I got the message "Communication
prohibited by filter" when I tried pinging the addresses on our
network from his machine.
Before he went out Graham suggested it could be a virus. I do not
have a program and I can't download one onto his computer. If
someone can suggest a suitable program I can download it onto my
computer and put it on a CD/DVD to transfer it to the iMac.
Best wishes to all from Diana
Does Graham use desktop widgets and utilities? I agree with Ronni that a
lack of RAM would exacerbate the connectivity problem. On my old
computer I
had similar slow web page loading (the Apple and iiNet sites were the
worst!) Little things like a Resources Monitor and the Yahoo weather and
stock exchange widgets just sit quietly in RAM doing their thing - but
consume precious memory.
My feeling is that other potential RAM-eaters are applications
that are "on"
but minimised. I (usually) completely quit apps that I will not be using
during the day.
Regards, Alan
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