BillBaldwin
02-28-2002, 07:14 PM
home network is two AMD driven Win98 SE machines, 10-100 ethernet cards (not same brand), connected to a linksys switch with a cable modem into the wide band input
One machine, AMD 850 Athlon SMOKES on the cable connection. 5 mb downloads a minute when the stars are right.
The other, AMD Athlon XP1800 isn't much faster than a 56k connection. And, using the home peer to peer network (both machines are in the same workgroup), the XP1800 takes forever to copy files from the other machine. It times out after awhile and tells me the network resource is no longer available . . . even though the shared folder on the 850 machine is still visible on the XP1800 and files there are still accessible. In fact, it is not possible to copy files much bigger than 1 mb. BTW files transfer from the 850 to the XP1800 much faster than the other way around but still way too slowly for the hardware involved . . .
More to the mystery: the 850 is a ghosted C drive originally a K62-500 and is an old old Win 98 SE installation upgraded from a Win 95 OSR1 with a registry that probably reflects its 28.8 modem access origins (but with one .inf patch from a site that promised it would rework the registry for cable speeds) yet it hums. The XP1800 is a clean install of (a different copy, of course) of Win 98 SE OEM. On this one I ran the same registry .inf fix . . .
Oh yeah -- each machine uses the same free version of Zone Alarm firewall and the XP1800 has Norton System Works 2002 with the 2002 AntiVirus and the 850 has the Norton 2000 version
Any ideas? I really would like to avoid having to reinstall Win98SE on the XP1800 . . .
Predictions on what might happen if I installed XP Pro as the OS onthe XP 1800?
One machine, AMD 850 Athlon SMOKES on the cable connection. 5 mb downloads a minute when the stars are right.
The other, AMD Athlon XP1800 isn't much faster than a 56k connection. And, using the home peer to peer network (both machines are in the same workgroup), the XP1800 takes forever to copy files from the other machine. It times out after awhile and tells me the network resource is no longer available . . . even though the shared folder on the 850 machine is still visible on the XP1800 and files there are still accessible. In fact, it is not possible to copy files much bigger than 1 mb. BTW files transfer from the 850 to the XP1800 much faster than the other way around but still way too slowly for the hardware involved . . .
More to the mystery: the 850 is a ghosted C drive originally a K62-500 and is an old old Win 98 SE installation upgraded from a Win 95 OSR1 with a registry that probably reflects its 28.8 modem access origins (but with one .inf patch from a site that promised it would rework the registry for cable speeds) yet it hums. The XP1800 is a clean install of (a different copy, of course) of Win 98 SE OEM. On this one I ran the same registry .inf fix . . .
Oh yeah -- each machine uses the same free version of Zone Alarm firewall and the XP1800 has Norton System Works 2002 with the 2002 AntiVirus and the 850 has the Norton 2000 version
Any ideas? I really would like to avoid having to reinstall Win98SE on the XP1800 . . .
Predictions on what might happen if I installed XP Pro as the OS onthe XP 1800?