I have a win2K-pc and had a WinME-pc, on which now also W2K is installed. I had no problems when WinME was stil running and it's this pc which is connected to the internet ( by a 2nd network adapter ). I use Internet Connection Sharing. After installing Win2K instead of WinME, the LAN became so slow that receiving e-mail became impossible on the remote machine ( server time out, even if set to 5 minutes ). The network card for the local LAN on the internet connected machine has a fixed IP address. I also have a 12 years old Amiga on the same network, no problems there. All adapters are 10Mbit/sec. I did a test with a speed testing website : on the directly connected pc, I reached over 300 Kb/sec, the same site on the remote machine : 13 Kb/sec. A little difference... Anyone any ideas ? Thanks

Hey Marnix, Sounds like a driver problem. Make sure you've got the correct drivers installed for (at least) the internal NIC on the Win2K machine, and let the adapter auto set the speed and duplex settings. Good luck, Chase

Hello Chase, Thanks for the reply. Could not have been a driver problem since it worked fine between 2K and ME. After "upgrading" the ME also to 2K, on almost exactly the same machine ( one runs @800 MHz, the other @933, otherwise same brand of motherboard, same chipset etc. ) But the problem is vanished : getting rid of WinMe-remainders by doing a clean install of Win2000 ( not easy to get the C:partition really reformatted in NTFS, if you want to keep the other three partitions intact, don't know how I did it... ) with only one network-card installed, then completing the internet connection, shutting down the computer and inserting the local network card, and finally complete the local network setup. I'm back to over 950 Kbytes per second transfers. NEVER believe you can "upgrade" or "downgrade" your system by installing another OS over an existing one. There will always be remainders of the previous OS which will sooner or later create problems. Regards, Marmix.