Linksys wireless slow file sharing

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Some really incorrect answers....if you want all of these machines to talk, make sure you have tcp/ip protocol on all....ealier verions of windows default network protocol was netbeiu....2000, nt, xp, me default is tcp/ip....as long as you have tcpip protocol loaded, and the same workgroup name for all, with file/print sharing loadded, everything will work...thanks
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Use a password on the Windows 98 computer http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/browse.htm
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I found a solution to my problem. I had used a shareware program ( TweakDUN I believe ) and it changed my registry settings. I referred to MS Q158474 and compared my registry settings to Microsoft's default. My culprit was HKEY_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP with an entry of 2000 for DefaultRcvWindow. I changed it back to the recommended 8192 and a 32 Mb file now takes 25 seconds to copy over instead of the 25 minutes it used to take ! Network utilization went from 0.13 % up to around 16 %. Still not sure why it's not closer to 100% ??? I hope this helps you out !
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Had the same problem. If you're using WinXP Professional, here is the solution: Use the group policy editor to allow network access with a blank password, which XP disables by default. Here is the url: http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxpwin9x.htm
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Yesterday, John McCarthy, a fellow in our organization researching this same problem
found that by unchecking QoS Packet Scheduler in Network Connections fixed the problem!!
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On the WinXP, go to Local Security Policy and disable the “Account: Limit local
Account use of blank password to console only”. This option is “Enable” by default.
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Go into "Network Connections" on the XP machine, and go to the menu item "Advanced"
-> "Advanced Settings".

Select your Ethernet card in the "Connections" box and make sure it is listed first
(MAKE it first, if it isn't) and that under bindings, ONLY "NWLINK IPX..." is checked
for File and Printer Sharing AND Client for Microsoft Networks, and that they are
listed FIRST. For other potential Connections, make sure that NONE of them are bound
to File and Printer Sharing or Client for Microsoft Networks. On the TAB "Provider
Order" make sure that "Microsoft Windows Network" is first.
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Make sure that all 98 machines successfully authenticate as Guest, not as a user
account. You can find this out by going to Event Viewer (one way to get to it is
by right-clicking on My Computer, and going to "Manage", then looking through the
list) and to the Security area, and look at some of the audits.
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[TO BE ABLE TO COPY FAST FROM WIN98 CLIENTS] Make sure that on both client and
server machines, the keys in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

and

{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}

are both deleted. The client side is optional in these instructions, because I've
not been able to proove it helps.
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[TO BE ABLE TO COPY TO WIN98 FROM XP] See http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;321169
-- these directions worked. I'll note that neither of these values, RequireSecuritySignature
or EnableSecuritySignature, existed on my system, and they are DWORD values (which
the article doesn't state, since it ASSUMES they exist). Synopsis:

Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).

Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

Double-click the RequireSecuritySignature value, type 0 in the Value data box, and
then click OK.

Double-click the EnableSecuritySignature value, type 0 in the Value data box, and
then click OK.

Quit Registry Editor.

I noticed that I didn't need to restart XP to see the performance difference. No
more dying/quitting after 35 seconds, but on a 100Full Switched Ethernet connection,
609MB could be copied in 6-9 minutes in either direction.

IMPORTANT NOTE For those wishing to peer-to-peer network Windows XP and Windows 98:
On the XP machine, the "Authentication" tab of the network connection properties
contains a checkbox "Enable IEEE 802.1 authentication for this network" that MUST
be UNCHECKED. XP seems to have applications that like to turn it on again, so make
sure this doesn't happen, and suspect that it has when a working scheme suddenly
does not.