Hello Eric;

    I'm going through much the same dilemma as you. I have two systems that show their
NICs as being installed and functioning properly. I took both NICs to the vendor where
they have a peer-to-peer with a hub. The cards worked fine. We even tested another ISA
card (for my 486)  which I then took home thinking it would be the most troublesome
compared to the PCI Kingston card I had in the newer system.
    I received many helpful replies, both on and off the list. One experienced person
suggested that he had seen systems such as ours never work, until a hub was used. He
was not sure of the cause, but said that a hub had solved this problem many times.
Several others either echoed his comments, or suggested a hub as "the better option".
    I'm getting a 4-port hub later this week and I'll post my results.
    Pertaining to your specific problem, did you set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0
for your TCP/IP component, or are you using NetBEUI? I tried both, with the same
unhappy results. Also, did you check all the bindings? I'm sure you did, but since
they weren't mentioned...
    Good Luck

Bill
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> Hi-
>         I have 2 computers that are both running on Win95.  I have a network card
> installed in each. (SVEC ISA Plug and Play EtherBoard w/ BNC and RJ-45
> Connector)  My network card has an option to use cable or RJ-45.  Right now
> I am using cable.
>         Here's the problem.  I while back I took both network cards over to my
> friends.  I had one in my computer and the other in his.  We used the same
> cable I have now and everything worked fine.
>         So now when I try to get them working on my computers, the computers won't
> see on another, although each computer sees itself in network neighborhood.