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On 27 Aug 2005 at 12:17, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I just got 256k DSL day before yesterday. I have Win98SE.
> I can't see much, if any, difference in speed for surfing
> with it over dialup. Pictures upload and download faster,
> but pages don't seem to open any faster. I still wait as
> they 'paint' the screen.
Speed of painting the screen is governed mostly by your CPU and video
card, not your network connection.
> Do you just unplug the DSL from the port to do Scan Disk and
> Defrag? (I don't want to disable Zone Alarm and Avast while
> I'm connected and Scan Disk won't run with them running in
> the background.)
That should be fine.
> I don't have an ethernet port, so it's connected via USB
> port in the front of the box. Could this cause problems
> with Win98SE.....make it more unstable? (It's already very
> unstable anyway.)
Not instability per se, but the actual speed you see could be limited if
this is a USB 1.x port versus 2.0.
> I'm also getting a window every time I boot that asks for my
> user name and password for networking. Can I disable that?
There's a setting in the Network control panel applet for what kind of
network login to use. I think this indicates that it's set to "Client for
Mircosoft Networks"; if you change it to "Windows Family Login" the box
*should* go away.
If it doesn't, you can use TweakUI to login for you. If you still see the
box appear for a few seconds, that would confirm that your CPU and video
card are painting the screen very slowly. [I have recently worked with two
98SE machines using this: on the 1.3GHz P3 with an AGP 2x video card, the
box isn't visible to the naked eye; on the 200 MHz Pentium with an old PCI
video card, it's visible on the screen for 10 seconds or so.]
David Gillett
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