Network Problem!

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Ihave just installed a fresh copy of windows 2000 sp4 on my laptop. I was a bit concerned it may not run as i only have 64mb ram and its bit old. However, it installed fine and didnt seem that slow even running applications. Now i am attempting to connect it back up to my network. The network only consists of my Win XP desktop computer and the laptop. I have a router connected directly to a Hub and the two machines connect to the Hub. This worked fine when the laptop had Windows 98 on it

However, when i now try to connect to the internet on the laptop its take ages to load a page like google and bigger pages fail to load at all. When i try to connect to the XP machine from the laptop it say it cannot connect to the workgroup and the laptop doesnt appear in the workgroup on the windows xp computer. However, the XP xomputer can still connect to the internet fine and is not slow at all

I have tried manually assigning IPs to laptop and DHCP both result in the same problem. Is it due to the not enough RAM on the laptop? It still doesnt seem slow with only 64mb Ram. Or is it some other problem

Any help appreciated
 
Do you have the IP adress of your router set up as your default gateway?

What do you get at the command line when you run "ipconfig /all" and
"route print"?
 
The network only consists of my Win XP desktop computer and the
laptop. I have a router connected directly to a Hub and the two
machines connect to the Hub. This worked fine when the laptop had
Windows 98 on it.

However, when i now try to connect to the internet on the laptop
its take ages to load a page like google and bigger pages fail to
load at all. When i try to connect to the XP machine from the
laptop it say it cannot connect to the workgroup and the laptop
doesnt appear in the workgroup on the windows xp computer.
However, the XP xomputer can still connect to the internet fine
and is not slow at all.
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Something to try:
Sometimes the NIC does not correctly sense the appropriate speed and
duplex. Since you are connecting to a hub, the correct speed/duplex
setting should be 10/half or 100/half (If it were a switch, it would be
full instead of half). Try going to either the Control Panel, Network
Control Panel, or Device manager and find the advanced settings for the
NIC card and manually set the speed/duplex instead of using the default
"auto" setting.

HTH,
John
 
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