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Almost another year (how time flies) and nothing new to report. Everything is still working to the best of my knowledge.

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Late to the game here, but Belarc Advisory will also display the Product Key.

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You may be interested in what I did to extend my church's LAN.
https://www.speedguide.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=212591

The system is still working fine.

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It's been over a year and all is working well, except that the PCs aren't being utilized very much.

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Okay, here's what I did.
Uninstalled Zone Alarm and then entered Safe Mode. Still a no go.

So I bit the bullet and did a clean install of XP Home.

All is well.

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Problem:
All of a sudden my notebook can't access the other computers on my network.

Equipment:
DSL modem/router - Speedstream 6520
Notebook running Win XP Home SP3 - wired
Desktop PC1 - Win XP Home SP3 - wired
Desktop PC2 - Win XP Home SP3 - wired
Desktop PC3 - Vista Home Premium SP1 - wired ...

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Okay, I'm checking various forums to see if it handles DST correctly.
It is now 2:34 PM.

And, we have another failure.

And, my CP is set correctly (GMT-5 and auto detect DST)

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I think you need to provide more information about your setup.

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No advise yet? I'll try, but my knowledge is limited. I'd connect a router, with DHCP turned on, to the sat modem. Then connect the other PCs to it, using however many ethernet switches required. The router will assign internal IP addresses to those PCs. It doesn't matter how many static IPs the ...

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Thanks YOS.

I'll look into that.

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Time for another update.

I've completed the update of the two PCs. There doesn't seem to be any problems with throughput, but as i said earlier these aren't going to be used heavily. Just access to the Director of Christian Education's PC in her office and for internet access. I've performed speed ...

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Here's a 5 month old thread the OP started on the same subject.
https://www.speedguide.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=219193

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We haven't got into using it yet. But, like I mentioned, it will only be used for internet usage and for getting lesson plans from the CE's office PC. Obviously, if many errors start showing up, I'll throttle it back to 10Kb.

Thanks for the input.

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Sorry I haven't checked in lately. :) I've been busy configuring new PCs for the staff and reloading WinXP on the old machines for use by the youth.

So far I have two machines located in the church connected to an 8 port switch located there. I ran several speedtests (using speedtest.net) and got ...

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Thanks for the info. I'll check out the links. But, I'm not sure if I want to administer a Linux box.

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I have replaced several staff PCs and now have the old ones to use in the church for the youth. I'll be upgrading the RAM and reinstalling WinXP on these.

These will only be used for internet access and for printing to the LAN connected printers.

Slightly off topic: Can anyone suggest free safe ...

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I assume you are going to use this to separate your DSL line from all other phone equipment? My DSL provider installed a data/voice unit in my NID box for free. Maybe your's can do it also.

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I'm 11 days behind this thread, but cableguy was resurrecting quite a few 6 year old threads on 7/18.

He should also use a little more punctuation.

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I can't answer your question, but have you tried an alternative browser, such as Firefox?

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Try this tweak test on the DSL Reports site.
http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

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if you don't need to upgrade for any major reason then don't....thats the best advice you will get here. I'm beginning to think that way. I know that larger hard drives and more memory will probably help. The larger HDs isn't a problem, but the more RAM could be. Thanks for reminding me to think ...

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I'm the volunteer IT guy for my church. We have a LAN with four 1Ghz PCs. They are starting to get long in the tooth and we are thinking of upgrading the hardware. The users are now comfortable with XP, so would they have problems with migrating to Vista? I suspect that this can be mitigated by ...

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I think you need to setup a separate network connection for your home network.

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I connected the 8 port switch today and there were no problems. Now, to permanently move a computer or two to the church. I may also install my extra wireless AP (802.11b) to test reception.

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This phase was to add protection to the line between buildings and to run the Cat5e to the room inside the church where it most likely will be used. This required running the line above a drop ceiling and fishing it through a wall. Since this church is 100+ years old you can imagine how dirty this ...

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I'd start by doing a Google search for "networking tutorial". My search came up with 20M hits. I'm sure can help you.

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I haven't forgotten this thread, just been slow. I'll be installing lightning protection on the line this week and completing the inside wiring. I also had to get another ethernet switch to feed the church. Had an 8 port one in the one building with all ports used. Swapped it for a 16 port and will ...

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Thanks for that link, I'll give it a try. I'm still in the process of stringing the cat5e inside.

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Thanks for that insight. This connection won't be used for anything but internet and maybe some email. Heck, we don't even run any applications on LAN now.

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Anyone have any other thoughts for me? Like what to watch out for?

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Here's the latest. As a write this, I'm streaming some video (Windows Media Player) on my notebook while sitting in the dining hall in the church. There have been no dropout or packet loss. Even when I downloaded a large (61MB) mp3 file. The local connection status reports 100Mbps. The connection ...

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I'll be checking these things once we get PCs connected there. But, the preliminary speedtest shows 1500Mbps down and 350Kbps up. Granted that is a short term test, but is encouraging that it can work even if we have drop back to 10 Mbps. We still need to run cat5 to where it will be used. This ...

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I'm no expert, but wouldn't the printer have to have an IP address that is in the range of one of the routers? But, bridging the two networks should be possible.

Calling the experts now.

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Are you talking about the wires going to the adsl modem? There are only two needed. Usuallly the red and green. Or maybe you have a voice/data filter? The the two lines from the data side go to your modem.

Did you reset the modem? Give us details of your connections.

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The experiment went very well. After connecting the spare pairs on the telephone cable, I was able to get a 100 Mbps connection at the church. The speed test results were the same as if I did it from the main building. Now to figure out how to run internal cat5/6 or possibly use wireless in the ...

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Okay, I'm bumping my own thread in preparation of reporting about this experiment. I'll be giving it a try tomorrow. I'll report afterwards.

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Have you checked he manual?

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Do you have the driver disk for that printer?

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Thanks for the replies. All we plan to do is share the church DSL connection to maybe a couple of PCs in the Youth Room. The church phone system is a Panasonic phone system, so I believe the EMI should be lower than a straight phone company connection. There is also very little phone traffic on this ...

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Background: Verizon DSL connected to 8 port switch with 5 PCs and a LAN enabled copier/printer. This is all in a building separate from the church.

Now we are thinking of getting ethernet to the church itself. There is a 6 pair phone cable between buildings with 3 pair being used for phones. My ...

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