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My girlfriend's mom has had a couple PCs networked for awhile. She just bought a router, and now the second computer runs really slowly on the internet, and when the two computers attempt to share files, it is unbelievably slow. Around 5 minutes just to view files on the other computer.
Any ideas as to why?
DNS requests for machines might be being forwarded to your ISP's DNS servers.
We had that problem when we initially put in a router - if I wanted to resolve a local hostname, the dns request would be routed through the router to our ISP...
Do you know how we could fix it?
For ur local network rather than using TCP/IP try using NetBios...Quote:
Originally posted by The Hobo
Do you know how we could fix it?
Cheers...
Well, tech support helped her fix it, so I lost my chance to be the hero and gain brownie points.
Thanks for your help, though. I'll just have to find other ways to impress ;)
Can u tell us what was the solution so we can add something in our existing knowledge...Quote:
Originally posted by The Hobo
Well, tech support helped her fix it, so I lost my chance to be the hero and gain brownie points.
Thanks for your help, though. I'll just have to find other ways to impress ;)
Cheers...
I would imagine it involved modifying the TCP/IP Gateway and DNS Settings on the computers.
Not possible. NetBIOS requires a protocol to run over, TCP/IP is as good as any.Quote:
Originally posted by wrack
For ur local network rather than using TCP/IP try using NetBios...
Cheers...
Set up a local DNS server that knows the IPs of your local machines, and have it forward unknown requests to your ISP.
It was something like that. I don't remember the exact setting, but it was simple, yet nothing I would have thought of.Quote:
Originally posted by plenderj
I would imagine it involved modifying the TCP/IP Gateway and DNS Settings on the computers.