>It sure looks like one of the subsequent installs clobbered a 'working' component with one of "lesser effectiveness", but I have no way to get the system to use components from the original WIN98 CD-ROM!@#@!
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>Can anyone suggest some course of action to resolve this??
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>Thanks in advance,
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>Jim N


I'd pull the network cables out, put in cards that use 10 base T (RJ 45 connectors) and a small 4-8 port hub. I'd be willing to bet the coax is what's causing the problem. It's also a 2mb transfer vs. 10 mb on the 10 base -T.
I would also recommend you go into control panel, networking and remove all protocols but TCP-IP. Start your first machine at 10.0.0.1 and increment the last octet on subsequent machines. This is a non routable ip address and should work well on your local site. The other protocols are not necessary and only tend to slow your communications.


John