Hi there, I've got two machines here running: Windows ME machine with 2 network cards. 3com Etherlink PCI TPO NIC (3C900B-TPO) RP-1651W 10Mbps PCI Ethernet Adapter V.2 The 3com card is for my Internet connection and the other one to connect a second pc to my pc. That computer is running windows98 SE with the same network card (RP-1651W 10Mbps PCI Ethernet Adapter V.2). I use a twisted UTP cable to connect to the win98 machine. Nothing seemed to be wrong until I started to play a game of Red Alert 2 on my network. After a few minutes everything started to chop and I lost contact with the other pc. Nothing seems to be wrong in my network configuration screen. The windows me uses the Internet sharing protocol, TCP/IP and IPX protocol from Microsoft. I did some testing with the speed of the connection between the two pc's and that's where I found this really weird problem. The speed from the windows 98 pc to the windows me pc has no problem, but from the windows me to the windows 98 pc the speed is really slow. It starts the data transfer, stops for a second, and then starts again. I've updated the drivers for the 3com card, tried to change IRQ's, disabling VxD's etc but nothing seems to work. Can someone tell me what's wrong here? (I still haven't found the updated drivers for my RP-1651W 10Mbps PCI Ethernet Adapter V.2 card; perhaps that’s the problem)

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I had a system running very slow and found out that it was because the network card was bound to tcp/ip in addition to the ipx/spx used for the network. I removed the tcp/ip binding and it fixed the problem.

Make sure that the NICs handling the lan connection are both set to 10Mbits/half duplex. Auto gets confused! Try to get the right NIC drivers, but in the meantime: Also check that you are using the same IPX frame on both computers. And don't bind file and print sharing to IPX, just TCP/IP.