hello, I have set up a wireless sub-network for a small office. It's got a Win 2000 Server and 4 Windows 98 SE workstations. All the wireless hardware is Intel 5000 802.11 a. The router is attached to the T3. Now, the internet browsing is ok and fast :) but .... clients have really hard time accessing the server. It's a file server, nothing else - a little old - PII/64MB of RAM, but still good. Web browsing directly from the server is fast too. I'm using TCP/IP based MS Networking. Is it the problem? Too much traffic? Should I try something else (NetBEUI or IPX/SPX). All the computers are very close to the wireless router and the signal status is good or even excellent. So it is only about slow networking. The server does only file share - no PDC/active directory. no DNS, no nothing. Please help :) Can wireless use NetBeui or something else at all?

A slow network is hard to track down without some network monitoring in place. You have some oddities though from the descript. You have a "T3" which is a huge pipe, and used by entities with Big Bucks, and implies that you have a lot of people to justify such a large bandwidth, but then you have a "cheezy" PII/64MB of RAM file server. You ask me, it ain't your network, your file server sounds way undersized in processing power. Notice how everything else works but the server? Hmmmm? You even have the latest and greatest wireless "802.11a". That's good bandwidth. Though the next oddity though is it's not general engineering practice to use wireless for a server. For servers you want hardwire so you can get maximum bandwidth, generally 100 Mbs or even 1000 Mbs. As for using NetBEUI or IPX/SPX, those talk more than TCP/IP, so you would actually be causing more traffic than doing good. As for wireless and NetBeui, the two work on different levels, wireless is a form of ethernet which is what is called a layer 2 protocol. NetBeui is a network protocol, like IP and IPX which is called a layer 3 protocol. You can use whatever layer 3 you want over layer 2. Again you can't get good results without some sort of network anaylzer, but from what you describe, I would first be looking to replace or test out another server. D