Network problem
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Hi Folks, I have several machines at home. One of them, an Nt 4.0 box is very slow at networking with the other machines. I know this isn't a programming question, but has anyone had this sort of problem? Not quite sure what other info to list here. machines: Win Nt 4.0 (x2), Win95 (x 1) Any pointers, I've tried just about all I can think of. I'm not a sysadmin type of guy, I like writing software, hence I've never really learnt much about configuring networks.
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Hi Folks, I have several machines at home. One of them, an Nt 4.0 box is very slow at networking with the other machines. I know this isn't a programming question, but has anyone had this sort of problem? Not quite sure what other info to list here. machines: Win Nt 4.0 (x2), Win95 (x 1) Any pointers, I've tried just about all I can think of. I'm not a sysadmin type of guy, I like writing software, hence I've never really learnt much about configuring networks.
The number of things you can try is, unfortunately, nearly endless. Here's a few things off the top of my head: Could it be hardware? Some clone machines that have interrupt conflicts or flaky hard drives sometimes work, but work slowly. The hardware doesn't fail, just takes 3 retries to do everything. Check and see how many protocols you have set up. You likely only need TCP/IP, but maybe IPX for playing games too. Make sure the "default" protocol is the same for all the boxes (TCP/IP my recommendation), and remove anything you don't need. Some network cards don't play nice together. 100BaseT cards are like $20 ea, I'd just buy new cards for everything, get all the same brand. I like DLink there cheap and you can always find the right drivers. HTH