I just got a new computer with Windows ex on it. I hooked it up to an existing network at home. I can see other computers and they can see me but both the network and internet is very,very slow.It is downloading at 5k/sec via a high speed connection and when copying files from other computers its very slow. Anyone help? A possibility is that its because of the different OS's between computers..but I don't know.

Make sure that XP has loaded the correct drivers for the NIC, and not the WDM files. This would cause lots of lag in your LAN and web connection.

I'm having a similar problem, I succesfully created a home network between the host computer(xp) and my 98SE box. But accessing the 98 box from xp is sooo slow, not the other way around (meaning that from 98 I can rapidly access the shared drives). I checked the drivers and netgear's site says the latest FA311 nic card drivers are included on the xp cd. If this helps the nic card on the 98 box is a 3com with the latest drivers. Any clues?

ok similar problem here...!!! I had Win2000 on a LAN... I could connect to any PC and vise versa... When using XP I have the following problems: 1. Too slow as stated from the others 2. I can see only a few PC on my LANs (eg.10 out 15) 3. When I try to connect with the available 10 PCs this can be established only with a few of them ... On some I can connect OK but with some I get a not present/available error... nothing has been changed to the other PCs... any clues plzzzzzzzzzzz???

I also am running a Windows 2000 server and have previously connected to network shares, printers, etc. flawlessly. I continue to connect to these shares flawlessly on the computers running Windows Millenium. My problem is that after a period of time my connection to these shares on my Windows XP box fail. I get the error that the resource is unavailable or I don't have permission when I go to network places. If I go to a run line and type \\server\share it sometimes works. If I reboot everything works, but for how long I don't know. I am using tcp/ip for my protocol on all the computers.

Ive got xp on 2 computers and had a network working fine. I put winfax pro on both computers and used the fax sharing thingy. Last night i turned off one win fax on the client while the host was still receiving info from it. ooops. Restarted and now all network connections are unavailable and i cant get em back with the network wizard. Im not too hot on computers and have been wasting hrs on this. If anyone knows how i can scrap and restart my connections id be stoked. Thanks.

I am having exactly the same problem, it works for so long and then just dies! re installin the network card driver cures it for a bit but it soon goes back, PLEASE HELP!