bongripper
02-03-01, 08:42 PM
Hey - maybe someone out there can help me out.
I am on an @home network in Southern California. I have one PC (PII450 generic) running Win2k WS with 2 NICs - one NIC (3Com)is connected to the modem, the other (D-Link) to my hub. In the past, I have used Winroute Pro on the Win2k machine to share an internet connection with a WinME client(PII266 generic). I have been using Winroute's DHCP server config to do this.
Recently, I had to do a clean reinstall of Win2k on the Winroute machine. Win2k & WinRoute have (apparently) installed flawlessly, but now I have a strange problem which I have never seen before.
Seems that my connection speed drops dramatically (25KB/s) whenever the WinRoute engine is enabled, but when I shut it off, the speed picks back up to normal (200KB+/s).
This is weird, cuz I have used WinRoute for over a year now without any issues. Nonetheless, I thought maybe it was a Winroute problem, so I shut it off & then tried setting up IC Sharing instead. Sure enough, when ICS is enabled, the speed tanks just as before, but as soon as I disable it, it picks right back up. I am assuming, then, that this is neither a problem w/ Winroute OR ICS, that I must need to change some setting on the Win2k machine that has been put back to some funky default. Either that, or @Home has come up with a way of crippling accounts that share connections - but I don't think they're that smart, yet. Besides, it seems too coincidental that @Home would initiate a policy/technology like that the same weekend I redid my PC's OS...
Have any of you seen this problem before? Can you give me some ideas? I'm at my wit's end here...
Thanks,
The BongRipper
I am on an @home network in Southern California. I have one PC (PII450 generic) running Win2k WS with 2 NICs - one NIC (3Com)is connected to the modem, the other (D-Link) to my hub. In the past, I have used Winroute Pro on the Win2k machine to share an internet connection with a WinME client(PII266 generic). I have been using Winroute's DHCP server config to do this.
Recently, I had to do a clean reinstall of Win2k on the Winroute machine. Win2k & WinRoute have (apparently) installed flawlessly, but now I have a strange problem which I have never seen before.
Seems that my connection speed drops dramatically (25KB/s) whenever the WinRoute engine is enabled, but when I shut it off, the speed picks back up to normal (200KB+/s).
This is weird, cuz I have used WinRoute for over a year now without any issues. Nonetheless, I thought maybe it was a Winroute problem, so I shut it off & then tried setting up IC Sharing instead. Sure enough, when ICS is enabled, the speed tanks just as before, but as soon as I disable it, it picks right back up. I am assuming, then, that this is neither a problem w/ Winroute OR ICS, that I must need to change some setting on the Win2k machine that has been put back to some funky default. Either that, or @Home has come up with a way of crippling accounts that share connections - but I don't think they're that smart, yet. Besides, it seems too coincidental that @Home would initiate a policy/technology like that the same weekend I redid my PC's OS...
Have any of you seen this problem before? Can you give me some ideas? I'm at my wit's end here...
Thanks,
The BongRipper