Sometimes skype blocks some ports e.g port 80. THis can be noticeable when you run a local http server like apache. Next time it mibehaves, switch skype off and restart the other softwares. If thats the solution, configure skype not to start automatically, then start it after everything else has started.


On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:57 PM, nyarotho kennedy <kenyarotho@gmail.com> wrote:
Check the type of NIC coz ua problem seems to be hardware based. Is
the card loose at some point,cloned(poor manufacturing) or has been in
use for 'ages'? With xp ua problem is narrowed down to that as far as
i knw, on linux it would b varied. God bless u!

On 6/9/09, Martin Muraguri <martinmur87@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> I have this pc running on Win XP SP 2;
>
> The user uses outlook express and skype for most of the tasks.
>
> Network drives are accesible just fine. but skype will often fail to sigh in
> and if it does it wont be able to send messages, Outlook Express does the
> same.
> these two apps eventually work when you diable nd enable the network
> adapter/ connection or unplug and plug back the network cable... or restart
> the machine.
>
> The network is content filtered by DansGuardian running on a linux server, i
> checked with the ISP guys and the IP address on this machine is limited but
> allowed outlook and skype acess, there are several other machines on the
> network with the same limits but are working fine.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Maina Muraguri.
>


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