Home network speed mysteriously throttled?

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Jacques E. Bouchard

Hello:

I have my desktop (Win2000 pro) and laptop (WinXP home) networked
through a Netgear router, and also share a DSL modem.

Everything was working fine at first. Then I did a clean re-install
of Win2000 pro on my desktop and got a new laptop, although it's also
using WinXP home. They still network fine and internet access is no
problem, but now my desktop always asks for a log in when I try to access
it from my laptop (it didn't previously), and the speeds are very slow
(it take sme 25 minutes to transfer a 700MB file).

The hardware is the same: same router, same cables. The lights on
my router confirms that both computers connect at 100mbps. The only thing
that changed is the OS, when I did a clean re-install of Win2k on the
desktop.

I don't mind having to log in onto my desktop, although I can't
help but think that this new restriction might somehow be linked to my
speed problem. I've looked a bit in the settings, but couldn't find
anything and thought I'd ask people with more experience.

What do you think might be throttling my speed?



jaybee
 
Try enabling the Guest account on the Win2k Pro machine. Don't know about
the speed issue - try manually setting NIC speed and duplex, also update
drivers.

Doug Sherman
MCSE win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
Jacques said:
Hello:

I have my desktop (Win2000 pro) and laptop (WinXP home) networked
through a Netgear router, and also share a DSL modem.

Everything was working fine at first. Then I did a clean
re-install of Win2000 pro on my desktop and got a new laptop,
although it's also using WinXP home. They still network fine and
internet access is no problem, but now my desktop always asks for a
log in when I try to access it from my laptop (it didn't previously),
and the speeds are very slow (it take sme 25 minutes to transfer a
700MB file).

The hardware is the same: same router, same cables. The lights on
my router confirms that both computers connect at 100mbps. The only
thing that changed is the OS, when I did a clean re-install of Win2k
on the desktop.

I don't mind having to log in onto my desktop, although I can't
help but think that this new restriction might somehow be linked to my
speed problem. I've looked a bit in the settings, but couldn't find
anything and thought I'd ask people with more experience.

What do you think might be throttling my speed?



jaybee
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Hello

To resolve the login problem, you need to create a user with same user name
and password on both machines.

--
Winners dont do different things, they do things differently.

Madhur Ahuja
India

Homepage : http://madhur.netfirms.com
Email : madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com
 
You might try using stored credentials on the XP computer so that the credentials
needed to access the W2K computer are always used or create a user account with the
same username/logon on the W2K computer that you use to logon the XP computer. As far
as network speed, first make sure that you have upgraded your service pack and
critical updates on the W2K computer since the new install and are using the latest
drivers for your network adapter from the manufacturers website. If that does not
help try opening Local Security Policy via secpol.msc and find the four options for
"digitally sign communications" and disable all four and reboot to see it that
elps. --- Steve
 
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