Windows is notorious for this.   Add any networking card and your boot time
goes from worse to horrible.  The only way is to remove the card, which is
not much of an option.

Gareth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hahnel, Winfried (W.A.)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 8:55 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Phoneline Home Networking question


> I just installed a phoneline networking system for 2 computers at home.
One
> PC (server) is using a Linksys card and the other an Intel parallel port
> external model.
> On the server, now when Win98B boots up, it takes almost 2 minutes for a
> bootup vs. 30 seconds before installing the card.  Is there anything I can
> do about this since this is unacceptable to me??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred Hahnel
>
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