SG Broadband Community

Latency is the big issue with satellite internet. We have HughesNet Gen5 and it works as advertised. Huge improvement over their previous setups. I had Hughes 15+ years ago and it was primitive, required daily tinkering and visits from technicians, satellite changes, and it never worked dependably ...

It sounds like this computer is a mess...it doesn't have a functional windows on it and it may or may not have Novell client software, but it doesn't sound like it was a Novell server. If you want to be 100% sure it works right, I'd boot it up from the Win7 Pro disks you have, delete the existing ...

what you want is called EOP...Ethernet over powerline. It consists of two units that have an RJ45 receptacle and a powerline plug. You connect one of your router's ports to one of these devices and plug the device into the power receptacle in the wall. At the other end, you plug the second unit into ...

Have you checked the status of the XP firewall in your network connection on the P4? It may be on, blocking requests from the other unit. If you recently installed SP2 on the P4 that willl turn the firewall on and that may be your problem.

I don't agree about SP4. I've seen several units, both workstations and servers, that functioned nicely under SP3 and went off the rails on SP4, so my suggestion is avoid SP4