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I think once the benefits of PCI-E really start showing there is no way that people can ignore it. It may just be another piece of technology that really doesn't take off and ends up disappearing... People are weird creatures, most PC's still have floppies in them. The majority of PC's still have PS/2 ports. The game industry really drives the advances we see in video cards. Until we see games that AGP is unable to support, AGP will still be around.

It's actually interesting that they are talking about doing this now...my pops of all people mentioned this possibility many many years ago.

RTB, I'd just be interested to know if the same held true if you put another machine on the line besides for the Win98 box. I initially thought it may have something to do with the service on XP (QOS Packet Scheduler)...but after looking at that I don't think that's the case...although there's always a possibility. On the 98 box you should be able to do a netstat -a from command line and see all of the open connections on the box. Look for anything odd that doesn't add up, especially if you aren't doing anything online at the moment. There's a possibility that there's extra crap running on the 98 box that is bogging it down? :shrug

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Being that nobody else answered...I'll take a stab at it. Ok first off, in my humble opinion the network neighborhood feature in Windows is next to USELESS. I'd rather have someone chisel my teeth out than be forced to use it. It rarely works right because it relies on a thing called the "Browse Master" which is basically an argument between the computers in the workgroup. They argue until one says it's master and it makes the complete list of all of the other computers. The thing that sucks about this is, sometimes TWO (or more) computers think that they are the Browse Master and they don't include each other in the list...which sounds like what is happening to you. Also, the whole idea of network neighborhood waters down networking so much that it screws with peoples heads. If you spend just a little bit of time working to understand how to make this work without the workgroup / network neighborhood...you'll be a happy camper. Just because the computers aren't showing up in network neighborhood does not mean they cannot communicate. It just means that the browse master is screwed. So I'm telling you to abandon that whole method of thinking. Go to one of the computers. Click start-->run type "CMD" press enter. This gives you command line. type "ipconfig /all" make a note of the host name and IP address. Now go to the other computer and do the same thing. Use paper if necessary. Now, from computer#1, and from command line...type ping ip_address_of_computer2 (or you can use the hostname if you want). get a response? Yes, you're good. Now do the same thing from the other computer. You should get a response. If you do not get a response something is either misconfigured, broken or being blocked (by a personal firewall). If you aren't getting a response, post back and we'll drill into that further. First thing I'd check is the Windows SP2 firewall (but I don't know what OS you are running ) I realize this is getting to be quite long quite quickly, so I'm going to wrap this up as fast as possible... The usernames and passwords on both machines should be set to the same and the rights on the files AND SHARES should be granted to that user. If you logon to computer#1 as "themaster"...computer#2 needs to have an account on it that matches computer#1..same username, same password same group, same logon rights (if you screwed with local security policy) etc. now, rather than using network neighborhood...right click on "my network places" and choose "map network drive".. type: other_computershare_name and you should get into the share.

I wasn't aware that XP home doesn't support ASP for the PWS. If you are seriously trying to host some website from your computer, please please don't run it on XP home. . Get yourself an old P.O.S. box and load it with 2000 server and research server hardening. If you are developing a website on your home computer and then you are going to move it to a production site...I'd recommend a better OS than XP home. I know that's not especially helpful, but the PWS (personal webserver) in 2000 Professional/XP Pro/XP Home...and 98 for that matter, is pretty much garbage.

Network Administrator / Developer...although I haven't developed any sort of software since I got out of the Marine Corps 3 years ago. I support the Finance and Administration departments Information Systems...everything from the servers, firewalls, switches, desktops, PDA's, printers, blackberry phones...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...or "WHOI" (who?-EE). If you remember the Titanic...well we found it. If you heard about the Great White Shark recently on the news...well that was on our campus. If you've ever seen "Jaws", the nerdy little bastard that said he was from the "Oceanographic Institution"....it was implied to be the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, but I think the makers of Jaws would be sued because they didn't have permission to use the name. Anyhow, if you ever watch any kind of National Geographic or Discovery Channel you'll catch WHOI on there occasionally. The Institution does all sorts of Ocean research crap...to tell you the truth, I'm not very interested in any of it. But all of the government grants definitely puts some good technology at my fingertips.

it's a secret. Maybe one of the mods will look up my IP and let the cat out of the bag though.

it can actually get so bad that some hosts will lose connectivity, that's when I discovered this. Always used auto-negotiate because it was quick and easy, didn't have to worry about configuring anything. Until one day my newly clustered servers kept dropping off of the net. Looked through the machines in and out and couldn't find any cause for it. Swapped out NICS, swapped out Lines, changed ports on the switch...same thing, they kept dropping off of the net. UNTIL, I changed the switch port to 100full and the servers to 100full...and the problem has not reoccured.

Microwave, I usually do my best to toss in words that let me off the hook in case I'm way off base and have no idea what I am talking about...these include but are not limited to: "as far as I know, generally, as far as I can tell, possibility...etc. etc" I've been playing around with computers for awhile now, and one thing I've learned is...when you think you know a thing or two, you don't know $hit. I recently did a phone interview with Microsoft for a job...and the guy on the other end was asking me some of the wildest questions...like what is a gratuitous arp? Which I had no clue on whatsoever...but those who are wondering, when a computer fires up its' IP Stack it sends out a message asking for its own IP address to see if there's a duplicate address on the line.

Again, I'm new here and looking at the first page of posts I didn't see this listed so I thought I'd drop this idea on everyone. Most network adapters by default are set to "auto-detect" the network link speed and duplex. Like most things that "automatically" happen, it doesn't always work out so great. Things can appear to be working fine, especially with SOHO network equipment that is very limited in its' logging capabilities...but you may have line errors out the YIN-YANG (this is bad). You wouldn't be the wiser because your router/switch is not capable of reporting these errors to you. There's a long list of possibilities on these errors from excessive collisions, late collisions, FCS errors and CRC errors...these will slow down your network. Fortunately there's a real quick and easy way to avoid this entire mess. Manually configure your adapter for the link speed and duplex. This can be done in xp by right clicking on "my network places", choose properties. Locate and right click on your local area connection, choose properties. At the top there should be your Adapter...THE KING, next to it is a button that says "Configure", click on that bad boy. A dialog box will pop up, choose the "Advanced Tab" and you should see an option for Link Speed and Duplex with a drop down box on the right. Consult the documentation for your home networking gear for the correct speed and set it on all of your computers. HTH

Win 95 isn't really user/network-friendly. Just for S's & G's, I'd first make sure you have virus protection on that thing (with updated signatures) and do a complete scan. It sounds like it might be flooding certain stuff on your network...just a thought. Another thing you might want to try doing is uninstalling the network adapter and then reinstall it. If you're running a router at home, try putting in the address statically (instead of relying on DHCP from the router). As mentioned previously Windows 95 wasn't really built for networking, but I've been in places where it was running on many machines without problems. It does sound like some type of port flooding activity which is unusual. If you are using additional network services on the Win 95 box, I'd actually get rid of them if possible (file and print sharing for microsoft networks etc). Make sure you don't have any stupid protocols like IPX/SPX loaded by mistake. If memory serves me, all you should have under network neighborhood properties, is: tcp/ip client for microsoft networks and the particular adapter

Good I fooled you. I just like to throw out key buzz words and form intelligent sounding sentences.

I have a pretty quick net where I'm at...and it was laughable because "The Bandwidth Place" was showing my speeds as: lol

everything comes at a cost...besides internet death threats don't hold too much weight with me, until I'm approached by someone carrying a pipe-wrench who says "Yeah...you remember me from Testmy.net? I told you the death threats were real and you had to be a smartass..."

but as far as I know with the DMZ's on the "el-cheapo" home routers, they are not "true-dmz's" where the computer is actually isolated from the other segments in your home. Generally when you configure a dirty-DMZ in a corporate environment, the server may be on the 192.168.1.x network, while the rest of your machines will be on the 192.168.2.x network. and the router has the routes setup in such a way that the hosts on the DMZ cannot initiate connections to anywhere. Now with these home routers, there is only a single DHCP scope, meaning you can't setup 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x...because the router inside interface (where all hosts reside) is going to be 192.168.1.1...or the first useable address in the DHCP scope defined. Using *real* network equipment, you can setup a virtual interface on the router, so that the single *inside* interface is not only 192.168.1.1 but also 192.168.2.1, then you could have multiple computers hooked into the same switch with different addresses and in order for them to talk they'd have to traverse the router. In other words...as far as I can tell the DMZ feature on the home routers is crap. Setup port forwarding to port 80 on that server and use IPSEC rules or a firewall to stop the server from talking to other hosts on your network. It would also be a good idea to setup personal firewalls on the other computers just to prevent them from being attacked in the event the server is compromised. Alternatively you could look at taking an old computer and loading astaro on it, which will give you 3 interfaces on your router, which is what you really need to seperate the server from the other hosts. Another possibility would be getting another el-cheapo router and plugging that in behind your existing router and setup a different address scheme.

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Hey folks, Thought I'd drop by and introduce myself. I think testmy.net is probably one of the best test sites I've come across. I'm a moderator on the networking section at http://forums.abit-usa.com and I'll probably end up pointing some people in this direction. -u