Netgear RP114. Not even Tech Support Can Help!!!

[mineo83]

iv called netgears technical support a number of times and they cant even figure it out. I have a netgear RP114 router and i use comcast @home. Runing on a AMD 1.4 512ram Windows xp. The Internet and everything work fine just these specifie things dont work. For one, when im sending e-mails with attatchments in them i cannot send the e-mail and i will get loged off of aol. Same goes for outlook. outlook gives me a message saying it cannot send.But i can send e-mails,just not with files in them! And the other problem which is the bigest is, i cant post off some message board like this one nor i cant get into secure web pages. That require a password and username. It just wont go threw when im on my router!!! i had to unplug my router now just to even post on this message board cause i couldent sign in!!! Please im askign anybody out there with much experience on this issue to help!!! thanks

[YeOldeStonecat]

The only times I've seen Outlook have problems sending e-mail like you mention is with some earlier version of Windows when downloading and installing the vt386.vxd update fixed that. Could send plain e-mails, but not with any attatchments. Also one co-worker of mine had a similar problem with new Win98SE machines behind a Linksys router. Upping the MTU from the default to something like 576 cured that, which was done on the router. I don't know if WinXP has any adjustments that you have messed with already about MTU, or if you tried any so called WinXP hacks and tweaks for trying to squeeze the top speed out of it...I tend to stay away from those.

The only other time I had seen a problem with this was with someone who had an older version of Norton AV 2000. It's POP3 e-mail protection was screwing it up. Sending plain e-mails worked, with a attatchment didn't. Un-installing it fixed that problem. Told him to get the latest, which supposedly fixed the problem since I haven't heard back.

[Slitter]

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