Hello I've been having severe problems with my cable connection ever since I formated my computer. My cable company has been no help what so ever and I'm hoping someone reading this can help me. It started when I formated my computer, everything worked fine up to that point. After I formated and had all the drivers updated and whatnot, I tried to play one of my online games, I had huge problems with packet loss. After a month and a half of getting nowhere with the cable company I had a new modem installed, still problem not fixed. I read on a board somewhere to change the connection type in my network card setting from auto sense to Full Duplex mode. This actually solved the packet loss problem, but now I download at anywhere from 0.5k to 2.5k a second when I should be downloading at somewhere from 40k to 100K+ a second. I have no idea how to fix this and I'm hoping someone out there might have some ideas. I'm running W98 with a PII 450, 128 ram, 32 mb vid card, my cable is through rogers@home and I have a lancity modem with a ethernet network card. I'm not super computer friendly, so I need instructions in simple language. Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance! Chad

This may sound crazy but I had a similar problem. Make sure you have the correct time zone in the computers date. I had Pacific rather then Eastern and nothing worked. The second thing to try is to turn OFF the proxy server if it is on or turn it ON if it is off now. I find thet I need to change this setting every couple of months to get optimal performance on RoadRunner (don't know why it works it just does)

At the risk of sounding like an idiot, where would I find the proxy server to switch it on or off?

You can find your proxy server under settings for your web browser.

I had the same problem. The problem is in the Nic. I had to install mine in isa mode with a defined irq. Try it.