MSN crash

From: l0n3_w012ph (l0n3_w012ph_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:40:37 GMT

Hello,

yesterday I posted a message about ethereal (thanks again to everyone
who responded). The reason I wanted to see the traffic that flows
through my router is this:
I have two daughters and the oldest is 12 years. At that age it's like
MSN is the only thing for her and her friends to do. She has a PIII with
Windows XP (I know it's pretty heavy for a PIII, but to her girlfriends
of course it looks cool to show that you're running XP when they still
have 98). When I'm behind my PC's, sometimes all day, the Internet
connection is excellent (cable and Sitecom WL114 router). But when she
comes home, she of course immedialely starts up MSN and goes on chatting
and after ten minutes she comes down to say her Internet connection is
down. She has almost 150 contacts (IMHO it's ridiculous, but again: it
looks so cool at that age...). When I have to install something on her
PC and I turn on her PC, MSN automatically starts up and I really don't
have one or two seconds before 4 or 5 windows pop up to chat to her (and
the number keeps increasing after time). I already turned off the
autmatic log in and told her to delete some of her contacts, so she now
still has 100 contacts...

I think this is the reason for her bad Internet connection and thats why
I wanted to monitor the traffic on her PC and my router, because
sometimes even all the other PC's (and thus also mine *grrrr*) don't
have a connection at all anymore. A router reset is the only final
option then...

All my PC's are virus and trojan free and scanned weekly for spyware and
other malicious sh**. So that's not the problem. On her PC there are no
other applications working, just Internet and MSN.

So my question is: am I right about the number of contacts being the
reason for her bad connection? Or could there be any other reasons?

Again, thanks in advance to everyone who responds

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