yeeha
02-27-09, 14:53
I'm on a wired home LAN with a Belkin SOHO router with the latest firmware. My PC is hooked to a Netgear GS108 switch linked to the router, but the problem has also occurred with other cabling configurations, e.g. hooked up to a different switch, or hooked up directly to the router. My PC has the latest free editions of AVG antivirus, ZoneAlarm Firewall, Ad-Aware, Spybot SD, and Javacool Spyware Blaster. Zonealarm is set to Stealth mode, and has the host file locked. Spybot has the "System settings protection" of its resident program turned on.
I'm having a very odd problem. For some reason, 2 out of 3 times that I bring up directions in mapquest or google maps, it freezes halfway through loading the map, with several map sectors showing only blank grey squares, and completely nukes web access for the entire LAN. The LAN network and its WAN connection are still active, with connectivity, and other protocols still function (e.g. Thunderbird can still talk to its servers and grab my email, online PS3 games keep going without interruption). However, HTTP access is completely kaput for every machine on the LAN.
Waiting does not seem to help; the only thing that I have found to restore HTTP functionality is rebooting the router. Nothing, so far, other than map websites, has produced the same effect. This occurs in IE6, IE7, and Firefox 3.0.5
This is really odd.. any suggestions on how such a specific operation in a web browser on a single machine could reproducibly shut down web access for the entire LAN? (When I told my roommate this, he thought I was crazy, until it took me about 5 seconds to reproduce the problem and eliminate web access on his machine.)
I'm having a very odd problem. For some reason, 2 out of 3 times that I bring up directions in mapquest or google maps, it freezes halfway through loading the map, with several map sectors showing only blank grey squares, and completely nukes web access for the entire LAN. The LAN network and its WAN connection are still active, with connectivity, and other protocols still function (e.g. Thunderbird can still talk to its servers and grab my email, online PS3 games keep going without interruption). However, HTTP access is completely kaput for every machine on the LAN.
Waiting does not seem to help; the only thing that I have found to restore HTTP functionality is rebooting the router. Nothing, so far, other than map websites, has produced the same effect. This occurs in IE6, IE7, and Firefox 3.0.5
This is really odd.. any suggestions on how such a specific operation in a web browser on a single machine could reproducibly shut down web access for the entire LAN? (When I told my roommate this, he thought I was crazy, until it took me about 5 seconds to reproduce the problem and eliminate web access on his machine.)