SLOW!!!

[FUBAR_BigTime]

I have RoadRunner cable internet through a Motorola cable modem and can get D/Ls on either of my PCs very fast, upwards of 500K/sec. but my network is very, very slow!!! I have the cable modem going into a Motorola wireless broadband router, then a network cable going into my main PC, and the other PC has a wireless PCI adapter in it. The wireless connection works well as I said I get good D/Ls from the internet. I had to set the network up IPX in order for both PCs to have their own bandwidth, as the XP wizard would not do it for me. Is there any way to speed this up???

[Brf]

If you are using a router, you do not need to use the XP wizard. That is only if you are using the XP computer as a firewall for your LAN.

Setup both computers to use TCP/IP and setup the router to supply the IP addresses. Everything should work fine.

[FUBAR_BigTime]

OK, I've heard of that, and I have played around with TCP/IP when I had a 56k a few years back, but that is probably over my head. If it is not too lengthy of a process, could someone post as to how to do this? I am not an expert, I think I got lucky doing the IPX setup!

[FUBAR_BigTime]

OK, guess it must be quite a process, how about a link to a site with info, I'm pretty good at instructions. Thanks:=)

[Brf]

No. It is no process at all and should work out-of-box. What Operating Systems are you running on your computers?

[FUBAR_BigTime]

I have XP Pro on my main PC and XP Home on the other. However, the network may not be as slow as I thought, I think the problem was Norton Ghost. That was the software I was using to backup my drives to the other PC. I am still having problems with this also. MS backup utility limits my file to 4GB, but seems to work faster on the network, still not real fast, but alot faster than Ghost, until it hits 4GB and errors! My backup file is around 7GB. I'm lost!!!

[FUBAR_BigTime]

Still looking for info on how to setup my network with TCP/IP instead of IPX/SPX.

[josefz]

You can found detailed procedure description in Help and support tool on your machine. Do a search for TCP/IP here, you obtain about 15 articles.

The only decision you need to do is whether use automatic (dynamic) or fixed IP address range.

If you plan internet connection sharing, then choose fixed Private Address Space (by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) in the 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.255 range, and 255.255.255.0 subnet mask.

Internet connection sharing will assign the 192.168.0.1 address to the share automatically; then you need to use this (192.168.0.1) as default gateway address on the other computers.

HTH.

[FUBAR_BigTime]

OK, thanx Josefz, I'll give it a go and see how I do, will post back barring a complete failure and subsequent loss of connectivity to the Net;=)