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I have a weird slowdown.

Oifish

Oifish

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I am hooked to a home network (just two pc's) and I rarely use it. So when I'm not using it I unplug the hub. If my pc is on and I want to use the network i'll just plug it in and there are no problems. But if the hub is plugged in and I turn on my pc windows takes about 5min to load. If i turn my pc on with the hub unplugged windows stars up in about 15sec. The hub is a Linksys 10/100 Fast Ethernet 5-Port Hub (model# NH1005) and my network adaptor is a Sis 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adaptor (it's onboard). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
I forgot to add this. Even if the other PC is off and the hub is on my computer will still take forever to start windows.
 
windows is looking for DHCP most likely, or trying to reconnect drives/shares/resources. Also probably trying to get NTP time sync.
 
If I got a different ethernet card would this help at all or do you think it is purely a windows problem?
 
It sees a link on the network card and is frantically looking addressing.

How are you getting an IP? Static might speed it up (although getting an address from a dhcp server is 1 second max)
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
It sees a link on the network card and is frantically looking addressing.

How are you getting an IP? Static might speed it up (although getting an address from a dhcp server is 1 second max)
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The delay will most likely be caused by an inability to find a DHCP server. This was a bigger problem on Windows98, that you'd see a 10-15 second increase in bootup time because of the wait to acquire a network address. Setting it to static IP solved the problem completely.
 
This probably sounds stupid, but how do I set it to a static ip. I don't know too much about networking. 😕
 
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