Does anyone know if Comcast High Speed Internet works with Windows 95? Because, my Aunt has an old Gateway 2000 with a one gigabyte hard drive, and she has 98 SE on it now with no free space left. It says on their website that they require 98, but I would figure that 95 would work. Thanks!

Well, Windows 95 can work with a DSL connection just fine. Problem is if Comcast makes you install programs off a CD that check to see which version of Windows you are running. Of course, if you know how to set your network configuration on 95 you don't need to install any of their junk at all.

I do know how to setup the connection without the CD, so I presume that it will work fine. Thanks for the reply!

so what are you planning? formating & reinstall 95? If your doing that I would install 98se.

larry

I wanted to reinstall 95, because she has 98 SE on it now with NO free space, and only a one gigabyte hard drive.

Why not just remove any unnecessary programs/files to clean off the needed space?

Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

I just did the minimum install of 98, and to my surprise, there was plenty of free space left. Now I have the problem of this stupid ethernet card not installing.

just go find the eithernet hard ware from the vendor who makes it website and install the driver if that doesn't work google the name of the model and put drivers next to it and i'm sure if you do enough digging then google will have it.

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You have a question mark next to Gateway. Does that mean you're not even sure who made the computer? Open the case and remove the NIC. Take a look at it, and you can identify it that way. Or, if you're not comfortable doing that, download Belarc and run it. You can obtain the information from that report.

Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

The question mark by the Gateway means that I could not remember the model number, and the computer was at my aunt's house at the time. I also found drivers for the ethernet card, and it installs, but it still will not work. There is a yellow question mark or exclimation point (I can't remember which) in the device manager even after I install the correct drivers, according to www.driverguide.com.

I also did run the Everest software (I prefer it over Belarc), and it said that it was a Davicom/Cnet CN200 model ethernet card. If I have to, I will just use the ethernet card from one of my old computers, that I know works, or just connect it via usb to her cable modem.

Thanks for the help everyone!

My opinion if you get the network card figured out i'd get a cheap router so she will have a firewall protection without having to install one.

Also you could take a computer over to her house, setup and install comcast internet on it, then setup the router. Then disconnect and connect her computer without having to install all comcast's stuff on hers. Expecially if there's not much room on her hard drive.

No comcast junk and she's firewall protected without using any disc space.

Once you get a router connected you can connect about any pc from 3.1 to vista, mac to linux, ps2, xbox, etc.

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