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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Varche on 17 February 2009, 13:37:19
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I can only have a dial up connection where I live.
I have two PC's networked. The main one runs XP Pro and connects to the Internet fine (well as fine as a dial up connection can be). The slave runs XP Home and connects via the main using a crossover cable, cards and network setup using the Microsoft wizard. The problem I find is that the slave connects and works very slowly on Internet pages. I am using IE6 on the slave and Mozilla Firefox on the main.
Is it an XP firewall issue between the two PC's? I also wonder if something (maybe Microsoft ) is hogging what little bandwidth there is trying to look at the PC to do an update. Are there any tools on XP Home that I can use to see what is happening?
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Oh and I sometimes get Microsoft error messages on the slave saying stuff like RDL27.tmp has encountered a problem and needs to close.
varche
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Sounds like it needs fine tuning...
... with a size 12!
Sriously though, running it through the main pc will slow the connection on the second. Also depends on the network duplex speed to.