Recent content by jbell77

Final Update Update (final, I hope): The painters came back and mashed the ethernet cable (flat cable), and it's back to 100 Mbps. I bought a new cat6 flat cable, plugged it in, and I have gigabit again.

Apparent Solution Thanks stevech & moosport for your suggestions. The gigabit LAN is now working, but I don't know exactly why. It seems to be the cable. I could'nt test it because it runs out through an upstairs window, then back into the living room. We just had our house painted and, of all...

Hi, Tim and All: I have a home network with, among other things, a media storage computer upstairs and a media computer downstairs connected to the TV. The two boxes are connected by router with cat 6 cable into a Realtek PCIe GBE card; the setup has been producing 1.0Gbps performance for over...

Well, tried numerous suggestions from here and elsewhere and did not resolve the missing computer problem. Was resigned to just working around it as best I could. Then last night, clicked on "network" and the missing computers were back! Still there this morning. The only thing I can think of is...

Hi, Tim: Yes, I can ping it fine. I did enter the IP address in a run box, but got a "Windows cannot find it" response. The W7 machine has been on since January, but the problem only started about a week ago. I have no idea how long the W7 has been the browse master - I first heard about that...

Tim: Thanks much for your reply. I read most of your article, which is very informative. I found out that the Master Browser is the W7 wired one, which stays on all the time. I tried your IP address trick, but it said "Windows cannot find" the IP address. But when I manually put XP's name into...

Thanks, Valentin. Yes, firewalls are either off or allow exceptions for file sharing and for network discovery. Yes they are in the same workgroup, although I do not understand the attached error message when I try to view the workgroup on the missing XP

My home network is 6 computers: two Windows 7, two Vista Home Premium, one XP Professional (SP3), and one Apple; the XP and one W7 are gigabit ethernet, the rest wireless (D-Link DIR-655 with latest firmware). Everything was working fine for several months until a few days ago, when the XP and...