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Thread ID: 12578	2001-11-02 02:09:00	Seeing daylight again!!!	Guest (0)	Press F1

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23371	2001-11-02 02:09:00	Here's an update on the slow network/internet/dsl problem. Firstly, many thanks to all those who responded with helpful advice. I tried just about everything that was suggested and the outcomes are described below After multiple installs of my D-Link DE220 ethernet card and around 40 reboots, I finally gave up on ever getting it going again. I managed to set it onto IRQ5 (which turned out to be empty even though W98 claimed otherwise) but I had no idea what to do with the IO setting. I didn't know whether to set it to a clear number or one with the hash in front of it and couldn't find anything in the help files or the windows Resource Book off the Win 98 CD so I tried all variations. No no matter what I did, I couldn't persuade it to talk to the Nokia modem or the network. After finding my way through the undocumented idiosyncrasies of the New Hardware Wizard (written by geeks for geeks, so what's to explain!) I managed to find the correct drivers on the W98 CD Rom but they completely refused to work at all and kept claiming the software was incomplete. I guess the card must have died during removal or reinstallation. It's enough to make a man start mumbling about Macintosh in his sleep. I finally reinstalled the DSE card and went through another learning curve trying to load the drivers off the supplied floppy instead of letting the Wizard do its own thing. In the end I used the Add New Hardware Wizard but pointed it to the disk myself. That process is not exactly inuitive either. No points for DSE here either, for not including even the most rudimentary installation guide with this product. The manufacturer isn't even identified. It is all up and running again with the DSE card but the max speed is only 54kbps and it hovers around 33kbps most of the time which is pretty poor on a DSL line. So, now that the card is (probably) not the problem, any suggestions why the speed is so slow? What can I look for and where? Cheers Jim	Guest (0)
23372	2001-11-02 02:36:00	Always go the 'have disk' way, when installing hardware. Windows keeps a list of drivers that you have tried to install in the past and trys to push them onto you, even if they are the wrong ones. This can cause you to reboot upto 40 times before you realize. Without having to read the books that you have published recently on this site, could you please state the operating systems, no. of computers on your network, type of internet sharing program that you are using, type of network - TCP etc. Thanks.	Guest (0)
23373	2001-11-02 03:25:00	Sorry KO I write descriptively because I think it helps other novices like myself to follow the story. I hate cryptic jargon from experts (present company excepted of course) because it always leaves out that which is obvious to them but invisible to the uninitiated. I thought I had posted the system details before but in any event it doesn't matter now. Latest speed checks are 777.6 and 860 kbps. The answer came from revisiting Max MTU and RWIN as advised by tweak'e. I had changed them with Tweakdun but it had only worked on MTU. I found another tweak source which is a simple text based inf file. I typed in the numbers I wanted and away she went. Re the 'have disk' issue, I do if I have one but it seems to me that Windows sometimes has a mind of its own about what it wants to install and moves so fast you can't catch it. I did pick up the different files after about 20 reboots and declined to accept the newer files from the wrong driver I installed but something must have been left behind that fouled it up. Anyway, I'm surfing and networking at speed now so many thanks to all concerned. Jim	Guest (0)
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