# HELP! Home Network problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 1, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-home-network-problem/56212 "2004-07-01T16:48:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kajinku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/94ad74/32.png) [@Kajinku](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kajinku)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-home-network-problem/56212/1 "2004-07-01T16:48:41Z")
Hello all, First of all, I’m going nuts. I have tried 1001 things and nothing seems to work. Ladies and gentlemen, here’s my problem: I have 3 computers: 2 deskops and a laptop, all connected through one switch. One of the desktops has an ADSL modem inside, which allows the other 2 computers to have an internet connection as well. Basically, it’s like this: 1. Desktop 1 (host) 2. Desktop 2 (client) 3. Laptop (client) All of them are running Windows XP Professional and everything worked fine. Until now. About a week ago the internet connection on the 2 client computers started to slow down or not work. When pinging the host computer I had a 25%, 50%, 75% or total loss. Weird. So I decided to format all the computers, since the last time I did this was 2 years ago. I did this today. Internet sharing doesn’t work. Pinging the host computer works now and then, sometimes with 25% or 75% loss, sometimes not at all. Same thing when I try to ping the client PCs via the host computer. I check the cables, the switch, the problem persists. I check the workgroup, nothing. I manually configure the IP addresses, nothing. The Microsoft File & Printer sharing thingy is enabled on every computer, but still… nothing. I run the wizard for Home Networks on the host computer and MSN Messenger on the laptop starts to log in. I smile. MSN keeps doing this for 5 minutes and nothing. I cry. I don’t see the other computers on the network when I click “view workgroup computers”. I enabled the NetBIOS over TCP/IP etc… etc… etc… What the hell am I doing wrong?! I don’t know what to do anymore. I’m accessing the internet via the host computer now. So that works fine. It’s something with the network, obviously. Please, I beg you, HELP ME! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-home-network-problem/56212/2 "2004-07-02T17:41:00Z")
After 2 days, the problem is finally solved. Hooray. My host computer’s network card is replaced by a new one. Yes, it was a pure hardware problem. Ugh… Anyway, thanks to everyone that tried to help me out! 🙂