Need help..Wife is gonna kill Me

[gil11542]

Hi,
I have 2 computers on a lan they are running through a hub and then out of the hub to AT&t cable service.I formated my wifes puters HDD and loaded al the stuff like I always have done and now her ping playing UT is very high 250 to 300 and she isnt happy.I have reloaded Nic drivers (3com).My machine is right next to it and Im still running pings in the double digits.I have netbuei,ipx and tcp as my protocols , I have three machines on this lan and they all see each other and can move data between all 3,It just that here ping is very high and I cant figure it out.PLEASE HELP the nights are very cold here...

Im using 98se and have tried switching ports on the hub

 

[obenton]

She get her own internet IP address from AT&T?

 

[MrChicken]

I'd check the nic settings again, check the duplex setting, make it isnt trying to use full duplex though a regular hub. Try changing the IRQ and mem settings for the nic, Move it to a diff slot.
Try her computer when the other two are powered off.
Swap her nic and yours.
Buy an electric blanket... 🙂

 

[Wik]

Having a seperate IP would not do a bit of good coming into one cable connection.

 

[AnimeKnight]

I'd check the nic settings again, check the duplex setting, make it isnt trying to use full duplex though a regular hub.

kinda OT sorrie.. what if you are using switch??? what do you set on the duplex? cuz i seemed to have the similar problem

 

[gil11542]

Yes we have two IP addy's,I guess.!of the comps. is c-XXXXXXX-a and the other Is c-XXXXXXX-b.I dont know what a duplex is?🙁

 

[AnimeKnight]

the duplex you can find by
right click on network neighborhood
select your ethnetnet adapter
and under advanced tab.. you should be able to see what duplex you have
should be under media type

 

[grimwulf]

With AT&T you need to have two IP address assigned to get respectable ping times for gaming.

Been there, done that(personal xp). You need to call AT&T and see if you have 2 IP's assigned to your modem. The modem is a router so you can have 2 seperate IP's on one line. If you gave them the MAC address of your machine you will get priority over everything else that goes out the line. They provision the cable modem(router) to accept your MAC address, all you have to do is call and tell them you need another IP address, have the MAC from your wifes machine handy, and be ready to pay $10 more(maybe more now).

Hope this helps,
GrimWulf

 

[obenton]

Since your wife has her own IP the problem's not associated with software routing, and I assume her tcp/ip configuration is the same as yours, so I'd do as MrChicken suggested and start looking at NIC issues. Also, if it's not already done, you might want to unbind Client for MS Networks and file sharing from tcp/ip, and install Netbeui as the LAN protocol (on all machines).