Hi bernardino

SOME Nic's have great difficulty in speaking to each other via a crossover cable. Normally there is a hub that tells em "hey I work at 10Mbps or 100Mbps can you?" the card then says "ok I can work at 100Mbps so I will comply"

Without buying a small hub (which I tell every one to do anyway!) Try configuring the cards to use only ONE speed, try getting them off auto (also steer clear of full duplex! without a hub) in other words. You may have to do this thru a dos utility that came with the cards drivers. Or thru a windows utilty if there is one. Once the card's are both set at the same speed see if this speeds things up.

If not my advice is, buy a small 4 or 5 port hub.

Hope this helps and good luck.




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Don Davidson
Network Engineer http://www.insight-media.co.uk/users/nutrocker

[This message has been edited by DDavidson (edited 02-03-2000).]