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by dlcox2

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I am having a strange problem. Home network background is this:
I have a PPOE dsl account and a Linksys etherfast router as a gateway. I have 3 pc's on this small lan. The IP addresses are hardcoded (im not using dhcp). I can use 2 of my pc's without any problem accessing internet resources. But the machine I use most of all, is acting strangely.

On this pc I can browse the web (as I'm doing right now) use ICQ, stream mp3 music to winamp, just about any thing you can think of except tranfer large files. When I try to download a file, after the first 480-510 kb are transfered, the whole process stops. I also have a related problem in house. I went to one of the other pc's and downloaded a larger file just to get it here & thought I'd try to tranfer the file in house. The file won't transfer. I can however tranfer smaller files just fine.

What setting is screwed up? It must be a windows setting. (Win98se on this box)

Any help would be gladly appreciated.

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

Yep, I'm with you, DKlippert, on that one. Swap your nics around between your machines and see if the problem moves. It may even dissapear on another machine if you're lucky.

Lots of times on TechRepublic people report wierd stability problems (such as yours) that are fixed by replacing the nic.

Cheers,
Tim.

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