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I'm an IT department of one for a prirvate non-profit company with about 100 users.

If the router firmware upgrade doesn't help, check this out. Open your browser and put in the following ip. For the sb5100 this is where you can see information on your cablemodem. 192.168.100.1 Click on signal tab. What are your downstream and upstream power levels? (SNR is signal to noise ratio) Found this info on another forum: **************** Downstream Power: You generally want between -12db and +12db. Most modems are rated from -15 to +15. Anything less or more than that and you may have quality issues. I personally prefer to not have less than -7db. If you want to raise your signal level a bit, check my troubleshooting and splitter section. Downstream SNR: This number is best over 30, but you may not have any problems with down to 25. Anything less and you will probably have slow transfers, dropped connections, etc. See my "Downstream SNR" definition for more information on this. Upstream Power: The lower this number is, the better. If it is above 55, you may want to see if you can reconfigure your splitters. Anything above 57 is not good and should be fixed ASAP. (This is getting pretty close to not being able to connect.) Upstream SNR: Anything above 29 is considered good. The higher this number is, the better. If this number is below 25 and 29, you have a minute amount of noise leaking in somewhere. If it's anything less than 25, you want to get it fixed as you may have a lot of packet loss or slow transfer rates. See my "Upstream SNR" definition for more info. *************** Hope this helps

Welcome to the forum. Try running winipcfg (start->run.....) for one of the 98 or me machines, select the network adapter card (not ppp) from the pulldown menu, then select more info. If it is not showing an ip for the computer then try "renew all" button and watch for any activity on the router. If it comes back with an error like no dhcp server found, then it most likely has to do with the nic configuration.

Welcome to the forum. Do you have a router or hub installed? When I run tracert, my system ip doesn't show, but instead my internal router ip is the first hop.

I'm not familiar with wireless but someone should be able to help you out. One question I would ask is what model of router and wireless card do you have? Also, what operating system are you running on the wireless machine?

Here is a link to a guide on testmy for DW and lans. https://testmy.net/topic-1480

If you need help with networking/hardware, been doing this awhile. PM me if you want me to help out.

Glad you're up and running

Before you change the speed, if you know the ip of your other computer get to a dos prompt and ping your other machine. use the command: ping -n 10 your.other.computer.ip eg: ping -n 10 10.13.12.1 hen post the results. (To get the ip of your other machine: go to Start->Run then type winipcfg then click on Run, then select your nic from the drop down in the upper right of the window.) To change the speed and media for your nic: Right mouse click on you "Network Neightborhood icon on the destop, then select "properties". This is where your network settings are (also in dev. mgr.) Now, click once on your your nic card then click on the "properties" button. The speed, media type, etc should be listed under the Advanced tab. Some nic drivers are different in how they list these: both in naming and how the settings are listed. Some have one setting for both media and speed eg.: "100mb full duplex". Some have these separated out. Change the speed and media type to 10mb half-duplex. Only change these two then reboot and try it. (Some nics don't run well with auto negotiating for speed and duplexing)

Have you tried swapping network cables? Could be a bad one. If that didn't work, try setting your nic to 10 for speed and half duplex, reboot..

Cholla: The US governement made a conscious choice to give "classified" information to France with full knowledge of Frances' history and their opposition to action against Iraq. For whatever reason, I hope that it was in the best interests of the US (dis-information, real information, whatever). If it wasn't, then the US government is to blame for disseminating secrets they shouldn't have and if troopers died because of it, then it is on our governments head. Let's face it.... we only know what our government wants us to know. This is most likely true for any government in the world. I just hope that the people in charge act with honor and the interests of the US as a nation. Of course, individuals selling secrets is not acceptable. But, individuals have been doing this type of thing for years now.... selling secrets to other countries. Some are caught and prosecuted, some most likely get away with it. I agree with you, Cholla. It is not ok for a country's government to do just ANYTHING to further their interests. But we're talking about France passing alleged "classified" info. to Saddam which may or may not have incurred US troop losses, not nuking some third world country back into the Ice Age just because they peed on the lawn. There is a line to not cross and every country and every indivudual draws that line for themselves. Has France crossed mine into enemy territory.... Not yet, but the jury is still out.

Another one and a half cents, for what its worth. The French government will do whatever they think is in their best interests, as will the US. government. Didn't France have some big oil deals with the former government in Iraq? Would they be an ally to their own detriment? Probably not. Would the US government? I think this is what the Iraq war is about. I believe that the war was started and is being fought for two reasons: Humanitarian ideals (to stop the daily bloodshed that had been wrought by Saddam and his goons), and to establish a seed of democracy where none existed before. In most every instance where we have helped another country in war (and recovery), we have gotten shafted in the long run, one way or the other. Protectionism is a good concept, but sooner or later expansionist ideologies will come to bear and not having world allies, even tenuos ones like France, is a bad idea. Also, we do not have the resources or manufacturing in-country that we had 20-40 years ago. It would be next to impossible to separate out from the "global economy". Protectionism, as far as strengthening the borders, is a good thing. The US does need to slow the flow of illegal aliens coming into the US.

Don't know what the info was, but could have been dis-information

Could it be that we really wanted him to have the info?

Cholla: Seems ok. I've rebooted a couple of times and all seems well. Thanks again!

Will do! I restored a couple of them before realizing the update issue. Rebooted kinda wierdly but running. Thanks for the help!

Duh, just started running SFC. It is finding alot of "corrupted" files. I stoped the test and am wondering if these are just updated files?

Thanks for responding! Have run norton disk doc. and speed disk (I like these better than the standard Win stuff) but have not run the sys file check. How do you run that? Also, have done full spyware testing both with spybot and adaware and used avg for virus scans. (the other system I used mcafee).

I'm new to the forum and have a question on Windows 98SE. This is a funny one I've been trying to resolve for about a year on 2 different 98 machines. It seems randomly, when the desktop self-refreshes, the little icon used for the arrow on shorcuts change. It looks like sometimes it is taken from a piece of another icon on the desktop, sometimes not. I have never run the tweaks that will change these and have checked the registry entry for that little icon, but it looks correct. Sometimes, machine performance gets a little iffy as well when this occurs. Does anyone have any ideas on this?