internet settings for cable on new computer

rclayton17 · Post by **rclayton17** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:01 pm

We just purchased a new computer and we now have WinXP pro for the first time. We have been using win98se.

So I did the basic automatic detect internet setup stuff, since we have roadrunner cable. We are going through a Dlink Router.

At first, I couldn't browse any websites, so I went into the router stuff by typing 192.168..... and I didn't change any settings, and all of a sudden i could browse a few web pages, but not all of them worked.

Then I disabled the windows xp firewall and that seemed to help. I could then browse all the webpages...

But it seems like I still have some problems browsing. The first time I try to open up a webpage, it usually can't find it. Then or the 2nd time or even 5th time.... and so on... of clicking, i can finally get on the website. One time when it said, couldn't find web page, it showed a link to that webpage and i clicked and it worked...

Anyone know what might be my problem? Do you think it has anything to do with not being able to find the router for DNS stuff?

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:30 pm

http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=177 give your computer manual ip's make sure your firmware is up to date on the router should take care of the promblem

fixationdarknes · Post by **fixationdarknes** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:54 pm

I gave the computers manual ip's and it seems to have fixed the problem on the winxp machine. Thank you very much.

One more problem though

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On the winxp pro machine i try downloading a video driver from nvidia's site and it was going at 130KB/sec. On my win98se machine it was sucking it down at about 600KB/sec. I'm not sure why it was so fast, because I think our cap is like 350KB/sec. Anyway, the XP machine still isn't configured right or something.

Both are using the optimized cable settings on the TCP optimizer program. And on the XP machine I did that QoS tweak already, so I'm not sure why it's so slow.

98se machine:
p3 866
256mb ram
SMC 1211tx network card (something like that)

XP machine:
P4 3Ghz
1gig pc-3200 ram
ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe (onboard gigabit LAN)

Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet settings (onboard):
802.1p Support Port A: Off
Hardware Checksumming: On
Interrupt Moderation: On
Log Status Messages: Status Messages
Max IRQ per Sec: 5000
Maximum Frame Size: 1514
MediaType: 100Mbps Full Duplex
Network Address: Not Present
Number of Receive Buffers: 256
Number of Transmit Buffers: 256
Wake Up Capabilities: Magic Packet and Pattern...

Got any ideas? Thanks for the help.

rclayton17 · Post by **rclayton17** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:01 pm

Fixationdarknes was me BTW. It's my bro's account.

rclayton17 · Post by **rclayton17** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:32 pm

Actually I just updated the firmware on my dlink DI-624 Router from 2.25 to 2.50 and it seems to have fixed the problem. My XP machine is downloading just as fast as the win98se machine it seems.