Doug,

I've never seen this problem with a laptop, but I have with a standard PC.
It was a 233MMX Intel machine with 64MB RAM.  It was also using Token Ring.
The problem stemmed from corrupted network drivers.  I don't know if it was
Novell Client 32 that was the problem, or the drivers for the NIC.  The
solution was to completely uninstall all of the drivers, remove the NIC,
boot the system fresh, make SURE all drivers were not present, reinstall the
NIC and install all hardware and client drivers again.  Hope this helps, or
at least gets you closer.


>From: Doug Simmons <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Slow Network connection
>Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:35:19 -0400
>
>Not sure if this is hardware or software. I suspect some settings somewhere
>that may have caused this.
>
>My system:
>
>760EL ThinkPad laptop (Pentium 120)
>48 meg memory
>Windows 95a
>3 Gig hard drive divided into 2G C: and 1G D:
>3M Etherlink 3C589/C PCMCIA net work card
>
>I am using Client for Microsoft Networks, TCPIP, DHCP for WINS resolution,
>DNS is enabled with Host and domain specified, dynamically assigned IP
>address.
>
>Recently I have has a tremendous slowdown in copying files from and to my
>PC from the network.  I was not aware of really when the change occurred so
>don't remember what software changes were made at the time of slowdown.  No
>hardware changes have been made.
>
>I have done a benchmark load of a 250 k file from my machine and it takes
>42 seconds. From another machine (identical setup) it takes 2.5 seconds to
>copy.  A 2.5 meg file takes 5.5 minutes on my machine and 12 seconds on an
>identical machine  on the same network.
>
>What I have tried:
>
>Unloaded everything except Explorer and Systray - no change.
>Regclean - no change.
>
>Anyone else have an idea where to look?   Thanks for all suggestions.


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