Network speed auto sensing 10mbps not 100mbps

21 Dec 2006 1:09 PM

Lewis Brunton

Hi,

I have a small home network where all the components are 100mb capable, and
all are set to auto sensing, except my XP Pro PC which always defaults to
10mbps, if I try to default it to other speed settings I do not get a
connection at all, even though I have tried different cables.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks
Lewis

21 Dec 2006 1:27 PM

Lewis Brunton

Just a couple of things to add to my original post:

My router is actally sensing the connection to the PC as a 100Mb.
I have tried the onboard nic and a pci one both 100Mb capable and with
humerous Cat5 100mb cables.
I get the same result, 10Mb regardless

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"Lewis Brunton" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a small home network where all the components are 100mb capable, and
> all are set to auto sensing, except my XP Pro PC which always defaults to
> 10mbps, if I try to default it to other speed settings I do not get a
> connection at all, even though I have tried different cables.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Lewis

21 Dec 2006 9:54 PM

Richard G. Harper

If autosensing doesn't work, lock the equipment down on the proper rate.
Sometimes it simply fails and there is no cure short of replacing hardware.

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"Lewis Brunton" <LewisBrun***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a small home network where all the components are 100mb capable,
> and
> all are set to auto sensing, except my XP Pro PC which always defaults to
> 10mbps, if I try to default it to other speed settings I do not get a
> connection at all, even though I have tried different cables.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Lewis

22 Dec 2006 9:18 AM

Lewis Brunton

Well I have tried that, and unfortunately it didn't wrk. What has got me
confused though is that I get the same result with two different NICs, my
Intel Imac does not have the problem in OSX, which makes me think that here
is perhaps something not right in my Windows install.

Lewis

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"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> If autosensing doesn't work, lock the equipment down on the proper rate.
> Sometimes it simply fails and there is no cure short of replacing hardware.
>

22 Dec 2006 11:07 AM

Richard G. Harper

That's possible. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your network
devices and that you've cleaned up any adware/spyware/viruses, etc. from the
computer.

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"Lewis Brunton" <LewisBrun***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Well I have tried that, and unfortunately it didn't wrk. What has got me
> confused though is that I get the same result with two different NICs, my
> Intel Imac does not have the problem in OSX, which makes me think that
> here
> is perhaps something not right in my Windows install.
>
> Lewis
>
> "Richard G. Harper" wrote:
>
>> If autosensing doesn't work, lock the equipment down on the proper rate.
>> Sometimes it simply fails and there is no cure short of replacing
>> hardware.
>>
>