Laptop use of Wireless LAN at work screws up home email client

11 Jun 2005 11:38 AM

clc2

This may be a common issue. I own my own Dell Inspiron 8200, which until
recently ran on windows XP Home Edition, now Professional. I never had any
trouble downloading email from or sending it out by using a POP3 email cleint.

Work is a small business with a Wireless LAN, to which I am connected by a
TP-LINK Wireless Caqrdbus Adaptor. POP3 email clients work fine.

Now that I'm using XP Professional, my both my Outlook and Eudora email
clients get "connection refused 10061," when they go to download mail and
Error transferring your mail ... 501 #2175005 syntax error in parameters are
arguments.

Using "System Restore" to a day before I used the Wireless LAN has worked,
but daily trips to work soon leave you with no system restore options.
Deinstalling the cardbus and office printer drivers also stopped the problem
once, but constant de-installs and re-installs aren't practical.

what have I missed in setting up my connection to the office wireless LAN
that is preventing what I think is the problem -- restoration of my default
home IP address, when I log on to my DSL ISP from home? Command prompt:
ipconfig/release followed by ipconfig/renew have not done the trick?

Suggestions? Thanks!

11 Jun 2005 1:41 PM

clc2

clc2 clarifies: I WASN'T CLEAR ENOUGH IN MY 1ST POST. THE HOME INTERNET
CONNECTION IS NOT WIRELESS, RATHER I MY LAPTOPS IS CONNECTED TO AN ADSL
MODEM, AND AFTER LOGIN, OUT TO THE LOCAL PHONE COMPANY ISP.

SO USE OF THE WIRELESS LAN AT WORK SCREWS UP EMAIL CLIENT OPERATION, ONCE I
GET HOME. AND I'M NOW UNABLE TO GET EUDORA OR OUTLOOK TO WORK. BACK AT THE
OFFICE? THEY WORK FINE.

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"clc2" wrote:

> This may be a common issue. I own my own Dell Inspiron 8200, which until
> recently ran on windows XP Home Edition, now Professional. I never had any
> trouble downloading email from or sending it out by using a POP3 email cleint.
>
> Work is a small business with a Wireless LAN, to which I am connected by a
> TP-LINK Wireless Caqrdbus Adaptor. POP3 email clients work fine.
>
> Now that I'm using XP Professional, my both my Outlook and Eudora email
> clients get "connection refused 10061," when they go to download mail and
> Error transferring your mail ... 501 #2175005 syntax error in parameters are
> arguments.
>
> Using "System Restore" to a day before I used the Wireless LAN has worked,
> but daily trips to work soon leave you with no system restore options.
> Deinstalling the cardbus and office printer drivers also stopped the problem
> once, but constant de-installs and re-installs aren't practical.
>
> what have I missed in setting up my connection to the office wireless LAN
> that is preventing what I think is the problem -- restoration of my default
> home IP address, when I log on to my DSL ISP from home? Command prompt:
> ipconfig/release followed by ipconfig/renew have not done the trick?
>
> Suggestions? Thanks!
>
>
>

12 Jun 2005 3:22 PM

Guido

More info is needed. Assuming you have no internet connection problem at
home. Are you using different ISP's (work and home)? POP3 require you to be
logged into that ISP to send mail, recieve should work regardless. That 501
error code makes me suspect this is the case.

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"clc2" <c***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B5C98025-5A3F-4404-9A25-DC9635E69BB0@microsoft.com...
> clc2 clarifies: I WASN'T CLEAR ENOUGH IN MY 1ST POST. THE HOME INTERNET
> CONNECTION IS NOT WIRELESS, RATHER I MY LAPTOPS IS CONNECTED TO AN ADSL
> MODEM, AND AFTER LOGIN, OUT TO THE LOCAL PHONE COMPANY ISP.