My dear wife is the computer whizz (I like to think of myself as "the
creative one") but she feels that I should be learning how to problem
solve myself. Think I'll have to tell her that I feel she should be
learning how to take tire pressures and to fill the screen washer
fluid but thats another matter!!!
OK heres the question as succinctly as I can phrase it. Please bear in
mind that I am (despite the jesting) reasonably familiar with using a
PC; its more the setting it up and what the terminology means!!  We
recently switched from one PC (Dell) to two linked in a network. Both
in our home office. The two PC's are a new Dell (I think its a New
Dimension 8300) and an e-machine T2080.

They are both linked to one telephone line and both have Windows XP
configuration. Everything works fine, we can both be online at the
same time, but whether we are or its me alone (I have the e-machine),
MY connection fails about every 15 to 30 minutes. It only happens on
mine, never on the Dell which  is the "primary" PC. It can very easily
be reconnected in the usual way but is enormously irritating and
frustrating. Do you think I need a Dell also, or a new wife perhaps,
with more PC knowledge and able to check her own tire pressures??!!
Thank you

Konfused of Kenosha, Wisconsin USA

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 11 Aug 2003 11:24 PDT

When you say you are experiencing "connection failure," do you mean
that your connection to the Internet is terminated, or that you can no
longer communicate through your network to the other PC, or both?

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 11 Aug 2003 11:30 PDT

Also, it might be helpful if we knew what method of cononection
sharing your are using? Are you using a proxy?

tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by netwit-ga on 11 Aug 2003 12:59 PDT

It is the internet connection to "my" PC that fails. Not sure what is
meant by communicating between the 2 PC's. There really isnt any
feature that we share, perhaps some documents or pictures in My Shared
Documents/Pictures but as I type this I remember that just yesterday I
loaded a document I had prepared in Word to My Shared Documents and it
seemed to have done so, but my wife was unable to find it on her PC.
Does this help?

And does this help: Connection to the Internet is via CoreComm .

Thank you

Telephone meaning dialup or DSL?
Are you using one of those hardware routers,
or windows-internet-connection-sharing,
or some other sharing software?