Hey Mike,
I think we're suffering from the same problem that you
had. I had a feeling the Win98 Realtek drivers were crap, but I haven't had
any alternatives to test it out. If you could mail me those drivers you
mentioned, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
Derek.
>Are you running Win98?
>We have a 5pc LAN in our house (students you see :) ), and when we all had
>Win95, there were no problems. Once we began to drift over individually to
>98, people kept getting booted from games. We tried changing cables,
>changing plugs, removing PCs from the LAN one by one, even tried borrowing
>an RJ45 hub, to no avail.
>Finally it turned out that the Realtek compatible Network card drivers that
>ship with Win98 are a pile of pants. When we installed the '98 drivers that
>came on a floppy with someone's card onto all the computers, our problems
>were immediately solved.
>Check your driver disk, if there's a 98 driver there, install it. If that
>doesn't make any difference, (and assuming you're using a standard Realtek
>you our drivers, or post them on my website so you can d/l them
>Hope that helps.
>Mike West.
>3DNow! UK: www.3dnow.freeserve.co.uk
>P.S. if not all PC's are on 98, at least install the drivers on the server.
>That should make it stable enough to connect to.
>> I have 2 pc's on a co-ax LAN...
>> Works great in Win' 98.. can see each puta.. send are recieve
>> stuff... and on my 166 (lesser puta.. 333 other) I can host
>> anything!!!
>> BUT.. my 333 can't :-(... I have only been able to host BattleFirld
>> Communicator... that didn't work great tho :-(
>> I have also had this prob with other ppl who have come around for LAN
>> races.. (3) and I have been hosting OK.. and then suddenly they would
>> GPF CRASH!!!!
>> This is in GPL btw....
>> BUT.. if another of my friends hosts.. (Vail Riches).. it worked
>> GREAT!!! No problems. :-|
>> We all have the same Network cards.. drivers.. etc...
>> Hmm.. can't work it out.. It sin't soooo bad.. but I want to be
>> ableto host on the 333 cos it isprobably better...
>> HAS anyone had this problem???
>> How do I get around it?? What is the cure??
>> ANyone??
>> Thanx....
>> James Pickard,
>> Melbourne,
>> AUSTRALIA
