Poll: Does your NIC slow down your boot time and shutdown time?

[Philly C]

Mine does. Anyway to fix that?

 

[NoreagaCNN]

Only my Boot-Up time, dont know about a fix though.

-Nore

 

[KameLeon]

It doesn't do it anymore in Win2k..

 

[pen^2]

second what nore said.

 

[The Stigenator]

if you dont have an IP on your nic it would do that.

Set your nic with the IP: "192.168.x.y where x = 1 -> 255 and y is also 1 -> 255

and reboot. It should fix it.

 

[urbantechie]

It should in 9x, i'm not sure in Win2k cause any machine IMHO boots the same time. Just put in a IP for it and should boot up a bit faster.

 

[Windogg]

It is always slower is you have your NIC needs a dynamic IP. A good chunk of the time is spend looking for a server and leasing a IP. The static IP solution the_good_guy suggested does help. You are SOL in Win9x you you have to have a dynamic IP though.

Windogg