Daniel Burt
December 5th 03, 12:07 PM
G'day, I'm having some serious problems with my NIC, its only able to
transfer at about 3% of its maximum it should... its not the NIC because
until recently it has been able to transfer at full speeds... the problem
has occured since I installed a firewire card (which of course can be seen
by XP as a network card as well) and I decided to bridge these connections
(using the software bridge that XP lets you do with 2 network
connections)... not to actually use them bridged.. just to see if it could
be done... sure enough, it worked no problems... but that was ages ago, and
I had had no reason to use my NIC until last weekend.
now the problem comes in two forms... one, I cannot remove the bridge (ie
delete it) because as soon as I do, I cannot play games over the network and
more seriously, I cannot access the internet via a dial-up modem... (I live
in australia, I have no choice). It connects OK, but when I try to look
anything up, it just acts as though there is no connection to the net at
all... the strangest part is that I can still browse to other peoples
computers and transfer files when it is in this state...
second... well, I thought.. ok, I will put a new network card in, I put it
in, remove the old card... try to set the IP and it tells me that that IP is
still in use by the old card... and that it will only cause a problem if the
old card and the new card are installed at the same time... so I tell it to
do it... and the same problems occur... no games over the network, no
internet available.... but I can still browse other peoples computers and I
can transfer at full speed...
I pull the new card out, put the old one back in... turn on, and it doesn't
work still... the only way to get it working again is to do a system restore
to a point where it was actually working again...
I've looked everywhere on the net, but there is not even a mention of this
problem, not even on the MS website... can anyone suggest some points that
could help me fix this problem?
I am starting to think that it may have something to do with TCP/IP... maybe
I need to uninstall it and then reinstall it after I have removed the
network bridge... but I hate stuffing around with these settings because I
need the internet to study on the CISCO site for my course I am doing...
Daniel
transfer at about 3% of its maximum it should... its not the NIC because
until recently it has been able to transfer at full speeds... the problem
has occured since I installed a firewire card (which of course can be seen
by XP as a network card as well) and I decided to bridge these connections
(using the software bridge that XP lets you do with 2 network
connections)... not to actually use them bridged.. just to see if it could
be done... sure enough, it worked no problems... but that was ages ago, and
I had had no reason to use my NIC until last weekend.
now the problem comes in two forms... one, I cannot remove the bridge (ie
delete it) because as soon as I do, I cannot play games over the network and
more seriously, I cannot access the internet via a dial-up modem... (I live
in australia, I have no choice). It connects OK, but when I try to look
anything up, it just acts as though there is no connection to the net at
all... the strangest part is that I can still browse to other peoples
computers and transfer files when it is in this state...
second... well, I thought.. ok, I will put a new network card in, I put it
in, remove the old card... try to set the IP and it tells me that that IP is
still in use by the old card... and that it will only cause a problem if the
old card and the new card are installed at the same time... so I tell it to
do it... and the same problems occur... no games over the network, no
internet available.... but I can still browse other peoples computers and I
can transfer at full speed...
I pull the new card out, put the old one back in... turn on, and it doesn't
work still... the only way to get it working again is to do a system restore
to a point where it was actually working again...
I've looked everywhere on the net, but there is not even a mention of this
problem, not even on the MS website... can anyone suggest some points that
could help me fix this problem?
I am starting to think that it may have something to do with TCP/IP... maybe
I need to uninstall it and then reinstall it after I have removed the
network bridge... but I hate stuffing around with these settings because I
need the internet to study on the CISCO site for my course I am doing...
Daniel