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Originally Posted by fasteddie  Is the Maxtor drive connected via USB? To test if it's Vonage that is screwing it all up, you may want to disconnect your computer from the Internet router and then see if the Maxtor drive shows up or not.
You may also try to unplug the Maxtor drive, reboot your computer, then plug it back in after the computer reboots.
You can also try to unplug your Vonage connection, and see if your network comes back or not. If it does, then it definitely is Vonage that is causing the problem. Vonage tech support should help you through it if they are the problem. Good luck! |
Thanks for your help. The Maxtor drive is connected via ethernet cable to my wireless modem/router. I tried power cycling the network to see if it would come back, but not. I made some other changes, primarily switching Vonage's set up for internet to PPPoE and disabling DHCP. I went ahead and got a non-network backup drive and hooked it up via Firewire cable. It shows up on My Network Places just fine, as does all of my USB/Firewire devices. I suppose I could hook up the Ethernet external drive with Firewire cable and see if that works.