Trouble during weeks: sudden lan-network slowdown

[jokzor]

i have 2 lan arranged computers with windows xp sp2 with all the fixes and updates till today
but one of them, that works as a server, for some reason i've been trying to discover for weeks, after two hours on, is almost unable to communicate with this pc
it's a wired connection and all the ips and gateway are configured properly
i already tried to use a different pci card but still have the same problem
i only solve it by rebooting but i wanna know what's causing it
can anyone help?

[kazaa2002]

i have 2 lan arranged computers with windows xp sp2 with all the fixes and updates till today
but one of them, that works as a server, for some reason i've been trying to discover for weeks, after two hours on, is almost unable to communicate with this pc
it's a wired connection and all the ips and gateway are configured properly
i already tried to use a different pci card but still have the same problem
i only solve it by rebooting but i wanna know what's causing it
can anyone help?

Hi Jokzor,
may I suggest
check connections
check cable (home made?)
if pc to pc it should be a crossover cable
if a router is involved, it should be a straight cable
cat5,cat5e or cat6

the next item I would look at....is sometimes
automatically allowing windows to assign addresses
can cause slowing down.
here are a couple of links that may be of some help

Answering Some Common Windows XP Home Networking Questions (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/russel_05feb.mspx)PC Today Article - Troubleshooting Wired Networks (http://www.pctoday.com/editorial/article.asp?guid=&bJumpto=true&Isfrm=IN&article=articles/webonly/techsupport/75w10/75w10.asp&ArticleID=31218)Tech Info - LAN Wiring and Pinouts (http://www.zytrax.com/tech/layer_1/cables/tech_lan.htm#10c)

[jokzor]

after two piles of badly burnt dvds (over lan) i remembered that it was an athlon xp 2000+ ...
i reduced the fsb from 133 (1666mhz wich should be his normal speed) to 100 (1250mhz)
and now i don't have any problem running it..
amd no more.. :(:(:(