I'm having some strange "agent paused" errors that I can't figure out. I've read the agent paused page, and searched and read most of the related threads in this forum, and can't find any solutions, or even anyone with a similar situation.

My home network consists of a cable modem, a LinkSys router and hub, and 4 pc's (3 desktops & 1 laptop). All are running Windows 2000, and all are fully patched. None have any anti-virus or firewall software installed, at all. All have functional, unrestricted internet access at all times.

One pc, my "main" pc, can connect fine, and has been running for about 3 days now, completing and returning 5 results without incident.

The other 3 pc's ALL have the "agent paused" problem, none has processed any data because apparently they can't retrieve data from the server to process. Two of the three have fresh, fully patched Win2k installations. The third is a seldom used file and print server, it is fully patched but has little software installed on it.

The one pc that does work fine is the pc I use everyday, has an assortment of software installed including a bunch of dev stuff like Visual Studios, Fireworks, Photoshop, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Python, NetBeans, Cold Fusion. However, like I said this is the only pc that DOES work with WCG, so this software is likely irrelevant.

This is exactly what happens when I open the WCG window on the other 3 pc's.

1. Popup window: The Grid Agent has encountered a problem while attempting to connect to the Grid Server....
2. Status: receiving 2420 of 2420 bytes from the server... (although sometimes it shows 2414 of 2414)
3. Status: Agent paused, see www.wcgrid.org/cause.html

I'm pretty pc literate and have tried everything I can think of to sort this out, hopefully someone wiser than I can provide some help. The confusing part is the one pc that works, while the other 3 that don't use the same OS on the same network.