old games on old machines! What to setup within IPX

[archangelm]

I currently networked a 200MMX with a P166 using a crossover cable. I cant get the 10/100 card to work over 10MB. But I don't care, sometime I will just breakdown and buy a hub anyways so I assume it will work then, my cable is 50ft long and probably has some problems associated with that. Anyways, the 10MB/s is fine for my use with files and games, however I noticed that Diablo particularily keeps booting me out whenever the P200 player gets into an area with a lot of monsters. I can't even join in if he is in a room with a bunch of them. This is almost like a RAM problem although it has 64MB sdram in it and the 166 has 32MB. Age of Empires works fine on it so I was wondering if changing any of the IPX protocol settings is recommended. Like the Network address, force data packets, etc. Or what do I do? Go buy more ram? a hub? HELP. This old game shouldn't be a problem.

[nastee]

sounds like ram to me too !
because if it's doing it when you get alot
of things going at once, it seems to overtake it.
under network properties
IPX/SPX properties
you can always try to set default IPX/SPX
pick Ethernet 802.3 for both under frame types
make sure under network address they are the
same (like 10)
enable NetBois
try that and see if it works better

[archangelm]

Ok thanks, I'll try some of that out and see how it goes.