Hi Heidi,

See the following link to Microsoft's technet site.  It addresses this exact
issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q193/6/37.ASP

Dan Kucherich


> >Hi there everyone!
> >I wonder if you could give me some explanations that might help us get
our
> >3-computers-LAN between the children's and my computer here at home work
> >again.  We have a Pentium II running Windows 98, a Pentium III running
> >Windows 98 SE and a Pentium III running Windows ME.  All have Realtek
> >RTL8139(A)-based PCI Fast Ethernet network cards and are connected
through
> >a hub.  It worked all well and quick as long as the Windows ME computer
was
> >not there but a Pentium I with Windows 95 b instead.
>
> >Now it seems Windows ME is doing things differently and I do not know how
> >to handle it.  I can connect with the computer on Win98 SE and vice versa
> >but cannot contact the Win98 one and vice versa, while the two other
> >computers can get in touch without problems.  Moreover the rapidity of
data
> >move between the Win ME and the Win98 SE computers is so much slower
> >than it was before.  The usual protocols (TCP-IP, DFÜ Adapter and so on)
> >are installed same as before, only strange settings we can see is that
> >Windows ME does have a virtual network card added and no IPX protocol
> >is installed and there is no way I could install it as there is no such
> >option but you could only choose between adding "Microsoft ATM Call
> >Manager" and "Microsoft ATM Emulationsclient" which I have no idea about.
> >tried to find something on the Recovery CD that came with this computer
but
> >could find nothing though I think I checked all folders on the CD-ROM as
I
> >do not know a name of a possible file
> >TIA Heidi Schröder

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