Recent content by Cerian

The neutral of the PSU should not be connected to the frame. This goes back to the 2 pin issue also. The grounding pin of the receptacle should not be carrying ANY current unless there is a fault condition. The ground pin is there to be an easy path back to the source in the event that a...

Hawkings Technologies has an 8 port gigabit switch for supposedly around the $200 range. I'd use Cat5e. As far as good gaming is concerned.... I'm still using my 16 port hub and it works decent (there a times when I want more but they are few and far between) My next upgrade will probably be...

Two wifi cards that support adhoc mode (Peer to Peer) If you want to expand beyond that you should consider an access point. 802.11b is probably the most commonly installed, however I would go with an A+G card. (5 Ghz and 2.4Ghz)

You CAN forward ports with the XP built in firewall. It's rather simple, in the spot where you enable ICF there should be a button near the bottom marked settings. Just add the specific port you want if it isn't already listed.

Not so much that they're special, but seems to be a nice piece of equipment according to the specs. Most have only one Gigabit port whereas this one has all eight. The reason I ask is that someone told me it was enterprise type equipment at SOHO prices. I was curious if anyone had used it and...

I would definitely have my line tested and you bug the phone company about that. My brother-in-law was just having relatively slow dialup rates and after he had his line tested and replaced his connection rate improved dramatically. The difference between night and day could be increased phone...

Try changing out the cables. I've had a choppy network communication that I couldn't fingure out until I found a cable that was bad. Just an idea.

How far apart are the computers you want to network?

Anybody seen these? The H-GS8T from Hawking Technologies? It's an 8 port 10/100/1000 switch supposedly for around $200. I haven't been able to locate one and would very much like someone's opinion if they've used one. Thanks,

no no, I had them on different ports of the hub. Also I had them directly connected to each other via Crossover cable. It was with the crossover cable that the problem wasn't as evident because I don't know how to check for collisions in Windows and also when connected directly, the run at...

Did that. Doesn't help. Using crossover cable, the computers go a 100Mbps so the collisions aren't as apparant. That and I don't know how to check for collisions at the PC end. I've been through diffent ports on the hub and even tried the hub at LAN parties and didn't have the problem...

Correction: the 450 machine is Win98SE not Win98. Sorry.

3Com 3c905-tx in an XP and a 98 machine. One 98 machine has an SMC EtherPower II and the 2 XP laptops have whatever came integrated. (one's a Compaq :( and one's a Gateway) The 2 98's are home built desktops and the XP desktop is a Dell. The problem doesn't seem to be NIC related. The...

Completely judging by the hub's indicator light. It seems that it doesn't happen as much when moving small files. eg. 100 1Mb files vs. 1 100Mb file. But with the larger files the light is almost constantly on. With the 98 machines it's blinks MAYBE once and then never again. I can't say...

2 Win98se and 3 WinXP computers networked. Everything works fine. File sharing between the 98 machines is great but when XP get involved (XP to XP, or XP to 98, or vice versa) I get all kinds of packet collisions. (watching the hub indicator) When doing 98 to 98 there are almost none, but XP...