A colleague of mine is experiencing some strange problems getting some newer Ipaqs to connect to the Internet via USB connections via his laptops.

What "seemed" to be happening was that the Pocket PC would connect successfully to a website if it had previously brought up that site (perhaps while connected to another computer). I don't just mean displaying cached pages, but actually locating the website successfully and displaying the most current information.

But if a new site was entered - one it had never seen before - then it seemed unable to find it.

In my mind this smacks of a DNS problem - ie. it's unable to translate the URL to the correct IP address.

I played around with every single setting but could not get it working continuously and consistently.

I've searched the Internet, including this site, for a definitive guide about how to setup a Pocket PC for pass through connectivity but cannot find such a thing.

Has anybody else experienced something similar ... and found a solution that works every time?!

Sincerely,

Robert Werner
MW Technologies
Vancouver, BC