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  1. May 2nd, 2003, 10:52 AM #1
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    [Resolved] Home Network

    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?
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  2. May 2nd, 2003, 10:55 AM #2
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    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...
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    Do you know how we could fix it?
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  4. May 2nd, 2003, 08:41 PM #4
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    Originally posted by The Hobo
    Do you know how we could fix it?
    For ur local network rather than using TCP/IP try using NetBios...

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    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
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    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
    Can u tell us what was the solution so we can add something in our existing knowledge...

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    I would imagine it involved modifying the TCP/IP Gateway and DNS Settings on the computers.
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  9. May 5th, 2003, 12:44 PM #8
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    Originally posted by wrack
    For ur local network rather than using TCP/IP try using NetBios...

    Cheers...
    Not possible. NetBIOS requires a protocol to run over, TCP/IP is as good as any.

    Set up a local DNS server that knows the IPs of your local machines, and have it forward unknown requests to your ISP.
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    Originally posted by plenderj
    I would imagine it involved modifying the TCP/IP Gateway and DNS Settings on the computers.
    It was something like that. I don't remember the exact setting, but it was simple, yet nothing I would have thought of.
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