On 9 Sep 2006 00:55:58 -0700, "MickW" <mickwalt***@gmail.com> wrote:

>I have one PC on my home network (ADSL router/modem with two PCs pls my
>
>work laptop) that has lost connectivity.  The main symptom seems to be
>that a ping command returns strange characters between the square
>brackets where the dotted decimal IP address should be.  There are
>normally two characters.  It looks as if it has a wrong character set
>or
>is binary rather than ASCII text or something similar.
>
>I have tried everything that I can think of without much success.
>Using
>another PC on the same ethernet cable works fine so it's clearly the
>one
>PC (Win XP Home).  I don't know what has changed since it worked
>previously.  I have run various scans and registry cleans.  I have
>tried
>with the firewall off.  I have run the following commands after many
>searches but none of these fix it.
>
>netsh winsock reset catalog
>netsh int ip reset ....
>netsh interface ip delete arpcache
>
>The other really odd symptom is that the ping command makes a noise!
>It
>sounds like a sort of squeak from the PC speaker (not the speakers via
>the sound card - the system speaker).  Weird.
>
>Any advice please?

> On 9 Sep 2006 00:55:58 -0700, "MickW" <mickwalt***@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I have one PC on my home network (ADSL router/modem with two PCs pls my
> >
> >work laptop) that has lost connectivity.  The main symptom seems to be
> >that a ping command returns strange characters between the square
> >brackets where the dotted decimal IP address should be.  There are
> >normally two characters.  It looks as if it has a wrong character set
> >or
> >is binary rather than ASCII text or something similar.
> >
> >I have tried everything that I can think of without much success.
> >Using
> >another PC on the same ethernet cable works fine so it's clearly the
> >one
> >PC (Win XP Home).  I don't know what has changed since it worked
> >previously.  I have run various scans and registry cleans.  I have
> >tried
> >with the firewall off.  I have run the following commands after many
> >searches but none of these fix it.
> >
> >netsh winsock reset catalog
> >netsh int ip reset ....
> >netsh interface ip delete arpcache
> >
> >The other really odd symptom is that the ping command makes a noise!
> >It
> >sounds like a sort of squeak from the PC speaker (not the speakers via
> >the sound card - the system speaker).  Weird.
> >
> >Any advice please?
>
> Is the name total garbage, or is it hexadecimal, like "fec0:0:0:ffff::"?
>
> If the former, keep working on the LSP / Winsock issue.  But be persistent.
> "netsh winsock reset catalog" isn't the only fix needed, or useful here!
> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html>
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html
>
> If the latter, check your "ipconfig /all" for IPV6.
> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/reading-ipconfig-and-diagnosing.html#IPV6>
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/reading-ipconfig-and-diagnosing.html#IPV6
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
> Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
> My        email         is          AT         DOT
>    actual       address    pchuck       mvps        org.

On 9 Sep 2006 02:18:42 -0700, "MickW" <mickwalt***@gmail.com> wrote:

>Chuck wrote:
>
>> On 9 Sep 2006 00:55:58 -0700, "MickW" <mickwalt***@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I have one PC on my home network (ADSL router/modem with two PCs pls my
>> >
>> >work laptop) that has lost connectivity.  The main symptom seems to be
>> >that a ping command returns strange characters between the square
>> >brackets where the dotted decimal IP address should be.  There are
>> >normally two characters.  It looks as if it has a wrong character set
>> >or
>> >is binary rather than ASCII text or something similar.
>> >
>> >I have tried everything that I can think of without much success.
>> >Using
>> >another PC on the same ethernet cable works fine so it's clearly the
>> >one
>> >PC (Win XP Home).  I don't know what has changed since it worked
>> >previously.  I have run various scans and registry cleans.  I have
>> >tried
>> >with the firewall off.  I have run the following commands after many
>> >searches but none of these fix it.
>> >
>> >netsh winsock reset catalog
>> >netsh int ip reset ....
>> >netsh interface ip delete arpcache
>> >
>> >The other really odd symptom is that the ping command makes a noise!
>> >It
>> >sounds like a sort of squeak from the PC speaker (not the speakers via
>> >the sound card - the system speaker).  Weird.
>> >
>> >Any advice please?
>>
>> Is the name total garbage, or is it hexadecimal, like "fec0:0:0:ffff::"?
>>
>> If the former, keep working on the LSP / Winsock issue.  But be persistent.
>> "netsh winsock reset catalog" isn't the only fix needed, or useful here!
>> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html>
>> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html
>>
>> If the latter, check your "ipconfig /all" for IPV6.
>> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/reading-ipconfig-and-diagnosing.html#IPV6>
>> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/reading-ipconfig-and-diagnosing.html#IPV6

>Genius, Thanks Chuck.  Lspfix sorted it for me.  Problem with
>CyberSitter, a filtering program.  Thank you!  Mick