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Is there any particular reason you don't use DHCP so your machine just gets a relevant ip address from the network it is attached to (assuming that suppports DHCP!).

Sounds like a simple routing problem. I assume that all your machines point to you DSL router as the default gateway. If so you might resolve the problem by adding a route to point to the shared printer. You may find that the router will only allow one ip address on the interface, in which case...

Sorry, typo, I meant reseat the harddrive cables. Without any other means of booting the PC, I think another hard drive is the safest bet also. You should be able to image the current drive to your new one and determine whether it is just the hard drive or something else.

Since the problem happens with things other than video (sound during startup for example) it could be related to the hard drive, or the IDE bus. I had somthing similar on a desktop when the ide cable to the cdrom drive wasn't fully plugged in. Not being familiar with the laptop, can you remove...

Is this a public webserver - if so is port 25 open to the world? You might want to set your firewall to prevent access to the port if it is open as the problem could simply be that somewhere is trying to use our server as a relay.

How much RAM do you have on the machine and how much is free before running your video. The symptoms you describe can be caused by paging or just the process of reading more video off disk. Before running your video try shutting down everything you don't need (including AV etc. if you don't...

I am not an expert on routing but can think of a couple of scenarios that may wprk for you. 1) Assign a static route on each router to the other subnet. that is on the router 192.168.10.1 define where the subnet 192.168.2.x is (and similarly on the other router for the other subnet). 2) Get a...

We had exactly the same problem on our ADSL line (BTBroadband) at home a couple of years ago. It was traced to a faulty connection on the BT side of things. I cannot remember exactly what the solution was, but I do know that on one occasion a fault was traced to the fuses on a pole not being...

It's highly likely that the limiting factor is not the network between the two machines but more likely the harddrives. With a 100Mbit/sec network you would see around 10MB/sec of file transfer. It is unlikely that your hard disk will exceed that other than for a very short burst. Paul

You may find the following useful if you need to make your own cable up: http://pinouts.ru/DiskCables/cdrom_40to50_pinout.shtml Paul

Where is the default route directed to? Try issuing a ROUTE PRINT at the command prompt. If the default route points to the adapter with the 10.x.x.x address then you might want to change it. If the 10.x.x.x is disabled then the default route on the other adapter would be used - which might...

You indicated that your laptop appears to work fine in the same location. Did you try it from beside the DELL - does it suffer interference in that situation? Is it possible to try a USB wireless card as this will be outside the box and may not suffer the same problems - it would also be easy...

Another option, if the PC has a normal ethernet port would be to use an Access Point in client mode. This would eliminate the wifi card in the PC completely and might work better than a wireless repeater.

Not knowing anything about your proprietary application, there is one possible explanation I can think of. I don't know if this fits all your symptoms though: The order of the network adapters presented to an application by winsock is not defined. This means if an application needs to run on a...

Do you have any kind of proxy server setup? I have used the same type of configuration with XP in the past without problems - unless there was a proxy server on the internet side. Paul

Just a word of warning. If you are copying the WinXP from your current D: drive onto the new drive and making it into C: - you will need to consider the registry implications. Entries will be pointed to D: drive rather than C:. IF you want to keep your current XP installation that will mean...

Try disabling the firewall on the desktop - it looks like a firewall could be blocking things. If the firewall is the problem you should reenable it and reconfigure it. Paul

I don't know anything about the UPS you mention, but my first step would be to swap the two servers over and see if the problem stays with the server or with the UPS - at least that way it would give a clear starting point. Just my tuppence worth Paul

An alternative might be to run gigbit ethernet between switches on each floor - this might avoid having to put in lots of new wire. I always worry when someone says "overall network performance was slow" it usually points to something specific being slow, or something seriously impacting...

You don't actually state what the bottleneck problem is. Is it acess to the internet for all users? Do the downstairs users get a poorer performance than upstairs users? I think jimbo mean that an Ethernet bottleneck is unlikely rather than an internet bottleneck. Just my tuppence worth. Paul