In message <c90f1fd80eb9471ab20551aeefb78...@d>, Dilwyn Jones
<[email protected]> writes
Hi Dilwyn,
I have just come across a file called "xpnetdiag.exe"
Which is inside the Windows folder \network diagnostic
This may be of help to you if you ever need it.
I set up my system with the Netgear software, so it doesn't apply.
Also, I have found that with wireless signals it is quite sensitive to a
slight change of direction with the positioning of a portable computer
relative to the signal.
Essentially wi-fi is plucking the information out the air anyway ... :-)
I have recently put together a Local Area Connection of 3 PC's
through a Netgear router, which has both wireless and ethernet cable.
This means that I have 2 connections active at the same time on some
of the machines !
The wireless is not reliable, whereas the ethernet cable is very reliable.
For the wireless a card has to be installed on each machine. In my
case I have installed two wi-fi cards, a PCI one on the main PC and a
plug in one on a portable PC.
2 of my PCs have wireless built in (A and C). B has a USB Zoom adapter
which is the least user friendly of the 3, but it either works well or
not at all.
The file transfer issue is solved (see other email), now printing is
the issue. That 300+MB file is still downloading from HP at about 1 bit
per day it seems. Sharing is deinitely applied to everything and
firewalls suitable set to allow sharing. It does seem to be a driver
isue as there is an obscure referemce to driver issues on HP's website.
It may just be for you that the wireless link is not always being
successful.
That's certainly the case - the Orange broadband is troublesome 4pm-6pm
when kids come home from school and swamp the network locally.
As well make any folders, as shared - these can be any folders that
you like, not just SharedDocs - that you wish as being shared folders.
SharedDocs and printing were all I wanted.
You also have to set up the printer as being a shared one, so that
any computer can access it. In effect it is like a separate driver
that is set up.
Done.
As far a different versions of Windows is concerned, you should be
able to using any version from WIN98SE onwards on the network.
I have called my home network "mchome".
The default is "mshome".
Well, as 2 were already called WORKGROUP I simply chnaged the MSHOME
default of computer C and it was spotted straight away, but that was
far as it would go originally. Seems to work now when I did it myself
instead of relying on the Orange CD.
Anyway, enough Windoze here for now...:-(
--
Malcolm Cadman
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