Hi Jim,
I strongly agree with Ed's ideas about NETBEUI and also agree as Ed said both coax and UTP cabling has 10Mbps speed with 10Mbps hardware.
I would also say at least use NETBEUI (with or w/o other protocols). MS IPX/SPX is not reliable as Novell IPX and can cause problems. Fortunately if you don't use netware you don't need it (or play multiuser doom, quake etc :).
I strongly suggest check of cabling. I've managed hundreds meters of coax cables succesfully but once lived a situation that drove me nuts within only 20 meters 4 machine. It was an overheating terminator. Besides 50 Ohm terminating on both sides do grounding of one end. Check on T connections that you have a resistance of about 25 ohms. If you have only two machines you could use UTP cable w/o a HUB too (pin 1 to 3, 2 to 6). 10Mbps HUB costs under 70 for 8 or less.
Before win, use diagnostics on LANcard diskettes to see you have no transmission problem. And for sure check your LANcard base addresses and IRQ match with the ones in Win control panel. Generally changed IRQ is not detected by win and the default is used (ie: your card is configured for 300h IRQ 5 but win uses 300h IRQ 3). And some rare cards having both coax and UTP should be instructed to use thin ethernet.
Cetin
>Hi John,
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>Another vote on the cable! I'll really have to replace the one and see what happens. Don't think that "seeing" the PC clears the cable as culprit, I take it?
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>The hub is another interesting idea which I shall keep in mind.
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>Cheers and thanks,
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>Jim N
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>>>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
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>>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.
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>>John
