re: Network speed between WinXP and Win98 (yeah its a b*tch)
Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 6:59 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by George Martin
(2 messages posted)
Can I refer you all to Curtis's reply below (Thursday, October 3, 2002 at 7:47 am)
which is the only thing that has worked for me on a mixed 98 / XP home network. Go
to your win98 machine(s) and in network properties, Client for MS network properties,
blank out the DOMAIN name. Perhaps MS should have this on their Knowledge Base?
Thanks Curtis!
George
On Sunday, October 27, 2002 at 3:33 am, Nico wrote:
>i have the same problem. i have 1 98SE and 1 XP pro running in a simple network
with
>a crosscable/switch (without internet yet, i want to get this running first)
>if i connect one of the computer directly to the cablemodem on the LAN it works
perfectly
>but when i connect them to eachother they can see eachother and share files but
takes
>it hours to transfer a simple file from one station to the other.
>also when i look at the networking tab in "windows task manager" the network utilization
>doesn't get any higher than 2%.
>i found some information about it on a site that has the same problem when using
>their product and the're still "investgating" the problem.... (AAAAARHG! i need
it
>fixed now! :) )
>
>Below is from a site about ACT!6.0
>
>Situation:
>You have a LAN with multiple Windows machines that are running various versions
of
>Windows prior to XP (an assortment of Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 configurations is
>possible). A single PC running Windows XP has been introduced into your network.
>The user of this machine has ACT! installed, and accesses a database stored in a
>network location (not on the local machine). The network works fine on all machines,
>until the Windows XP machine enters ACT! At that point, all machines on the network
>except the Windows XP machine slow to a crawl, whether in ACT! or any other program.
>The Windows XP machine still continues to function without problem.
>
>Solution:
>Network Collision Resolution
>This behavior is still under investigation. We believe it may be the result of an
>optimization in the way Windows XP's TCP/IP backoff protocol deals with network
collisions.
>When a single Windows XP machine resides on a LAN, it may be forgoing the standard
>backoff algorithm, thereby flooding the network and preventing the other machines
>from retransmitting. This problem could be encountered with any high-bandwidth operation.
>ACT! can generate a considerable amount of network traffic if you have several users
>accessing a shared database. so therefore exposes the issue.
>
>We suspect the slow-down will be most noticeable on a LAN which employs hubs rather
>than switches (hubs broadcast network packets, effectively flooding all machines).
>
>This hypothesis resulted from a document found in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
>It specifically addresses 'High Rate of Collisions on 100-MB Networks: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q315237.
>Refer to that document for registry modifications for customizing the adaptive backoff
>algorithm.
>
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