Slow network connection

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Charles

Hi, I have set up a network at home and I am having a
problem with the network connection taking five to ten
minutes before they will see each other after startup.
Once they connect there is no problem with transferring
data.

The network consists of a 466 Celeron, with 256Mb of ram
running XP pro as the server and setup with two NIC's
bridged, one connected to another XP pro machine and the
other to a Win 98SE machine. The server connects directly
to a ADSL USB modem and is set up for ICS. The modem
seems to take just as long to connect to the ISP, but
once it's connected there is no problem with download
speed.

Both network and internet connection problems seem to be
one in the same. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Charles
 
do you have static ip address (do you specify what IP
address to use) or do you let windows get an ip to use..
i have the same setup (except with a modem) and i noticed
that if i assigned IP address myself (192.168.0.1 for
Internet Sharing Computer, and 192.168.0.4 and
192.168.0.9 for my other computers (set the default
gateway to the IP of internet connection sharing
computer) now i see them straight away after bootup...
but the first time i had to wait 10 minutes for it to
pick up the other computers (i think it stores IP address
for computers in registry)... also instead of using
computer names use the ip address like this ->
\\192.168.0.9 type it in the address bar of my computer
or any folder, it should show the what that computer has
shared..
 
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