starcastic
2005-02-04, 07:16 PM CST
Hi. I'm having a very strange networking problem. At first, my computer wasn't detecting my school's network at all. However, I updated the dhcp, and now it connects. However, it is REALLY slow. It will get fast sporadically, for a few seconds, then slow to a crawl. Additionally, I hooked it up to my other computer, and manually assigned it an IP. When I tried to ping the other computer, a few packets would go at normal speed, and the rest would take a really long time, or not arrive at all. Any ideas?
My specs:
FC3 (it's not updated, because up2date doesn't work; it's too slow. it times out)
Chaintech ct-skt600 motherboard --> also, a weird note, which is perhaps relevant: in the motherboard specs, it says this for the LAN: "Supports 10/100 mb fast ethernet with external via vt6103 phy." external? the ethernet is built in. additionally, the network configuration utility sees it as a via vt6102 rhine II. Is this significant?
athlon 2700 xp
250 gb sata hd
512 mb ram
generic geforce4mx
My specs:
FC3 (it's not updated, because up2date doesn't work; it's too slow. it times out)
Chaintech ct-skt600 motherboard --> also, a weird note, which is perhaps relevant: in the motherboard specs, it says this for the LAN: "Supports 10/100 mb fast ethernet with external via vt6103 phy." external? the ethernet is built in. additionally, the network configuration utility sees it as a via vt6102 rhine II. Is this significant?
athlon 2700 xp
250 gb sata hd
512 mb ram
generic geforce4mx