I have been noticing something which has been annoying me more and more
recently. I have a very small home network with three computers, one of them
not on all the time. The network has a 5 port hub with a collision detection
light, and all the computers have the same ISA NIC. I have noticed that
often when initiating a data transfer there are several collision light
activations, usually around 3 or 4, sometimes as high as 10! I have
confirmed that the collisions are real since no data transfers during those
times. Once the transfer is going there is usually no other collision. Now
the problem is that these collisions usually take up at least a few seconds,
annoying when I have other things to do! :) I am not using the most
expensive of hardware so that may be a factor. Does anybody know how one
would reduce these collisions short of upgrading to more expensive hardware?
Is this common for cheaper NICs and hubs? Thanks for any info. TTYL

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