Summary: You have a good question here. I would venture a suggestion of not setting speed or duplex. See if autonegociation doesn't work it out correctly. Oth...
Summary: If you are hooking into a router or wireless router the nic should be set as auto as that is all the switches understand , most "low end" switches...
Summary: Hey Marnix, Sounds like a driver problem. Make sure you've got the correct drivers installed for (at least) the internal NIC on the Win2K machine, and...
Summary: Just to add to the good responses... If you force a speed or duplex setting ,you need to force both the NIC and switch. You will likely run into prob...
Summary: Very simple the hub is 100 meg only . Hubs do not do auto sensing for speed and duplex which is why a nic that is 10 only will not work on the hub ,...
Summary: What kind of router are you talking about ? Download speeds off the internet is only as fast as your slowest link . 54 meg means nothing with wireles...
Summary: Make sure your wired pc's nic is set as auto for speed and duplex , this is the only valid setting for these cheap home routers because auto is al...
Summary: You don't say where you have this pluggged in, if you have it plugged directly into the cable or DSL modem then it probably is only 10 meg , no se...
Summary: I need some advice with speeding up my network. Please forgive my ignorance but I am just starting off in the field of networking. I have two specif...
Summary: Check your computer nic card and make sure it is set for "auto " for speed and duplex ,do not hardcode a speed or duplex. If not set as auto and r...
Summary: Make sure the slow computers nic card is set as auto for speed and duplex and "not" hardcoded to a specific speed , this causes speed/duplex mism...
Summary: Check your wired nic card for settings ,make sure it is set as "auto" for speed and duplex ,should not be hardcoded. It might not necessarily be ...
Summary: When you say you checked the network card options what did you do? I would play around with the settings for Speed and Duplex (if that is a option in...
Summary: First go to the properties of the nic card and check the box under the general tab that says "show icon in notification area when connected". Now you ...
Summary: In this day and age can't really imagine why anyone would use half duplex and most new equipment supports full duplex operation . Anyway you look at...
Summary: Check your nic card settings for speed and duplex , they "must" match on both sides . If one side is hardcoded to 100/full then the other side mus...
Summary: The slower bootup times is probably from zonealarm , this takes awhile to boot up specially if you have an older machine . Are you plugged directl...
Summary: You cannot do full duplex on a hub , you need to have a switch . Hubs are 10/half only , setting to full duplex makes a speed/duplex mismatch and ca...
Summary: If you have unmanaged switches you will never know if you have a problem , all it takes is for someone to hardcode a server nic to 100/full and you ...
Summary: Most smart switches have a way to access them from an IP address or at least a reset button to get it back to oem state. Try that. I can't explain why...
Summary: I was talking about the XP machines making sure they had enough RAM. If it was the server then your right it would affect every machine. You might ...
Summary: The answering is no , don't waste your money . just make sure the speed and duplex is negotiating correctly . Are you having a specific speed pr...
Summary: Check the nic settings and make sure they aren't set up differently . Just set them as auto for speed and duplex . Also it would be easier if yo...
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