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Ditto to K with regard to rebooting the router. Mine needs doing from time to time.

And you had that telecoms prob last week didn't you. Might be a residual fault.

No techie me, I'm afraid. Just clutching at straws.

Of course you could always try installing Opera, or another browser, as a short term fix.

TP

At work we run word and need to access it several times a day. Our main management software calls a word file to merge various fields and the problem we have is that whichever machine it's on, it takes an absolute age to load. Word is on the individual machines and the merge data comes from the server, which is really another workstation with a bigger HD. Proper hardwired 100Mbs network.

Does anyone know how we can speed up Word's loading? It's an absolute pain.

SC

I used to do a similar thing and had little problem.

Two things occur to me:-

How many users are connected to the workstation/server? Win2K and I think Win XP limit the number of network connections to 10. You could have more than one connection from a single machine. So this has the potential to slow things down significantly.

The other possibility, do you have anti virus installed on each computer? Virus scanning can slow the loading of Word documents so it might be worth excluding known documents from the virus scan.

Do you have enough memory on the machines SC?

One machine has 1Gb, the other has 512Mb. Think I'll put one of the 256 chips back in the 1Gb machine and upgrade the other. There are 4 machines connected to the server, we run XP Pro. Using Avast anti virus, sued to have Norton on the server only but taking Norton off and putting avast on hasn't made any (noticeable difference.

I like the idea of excluding known docs from the virus scan. Will do some research.

Evening folks of great intellect, mine is but a simple problem.....I think. I run the United Devices Cancer Research Program which calls for 100% use of the CPU.
I recently installed SpeedFan which gives me the temperature that the CPU is operating at. When the CPU is fully utilsed the temp is 43/45c, when I disable the UD prog the temp drops to 38/39c. My concern is that the increased temp could be damaging the CPU. Advice please.

SC

I don't think your problem is down to memory, although you're probably at the minimum so upgrading would be a good idea.

You need to ensure that your anti virus is not checking the files twice, once by the server and again by the workstation.

Depending on your software setup, you could exceed the 10 connections limit. keep an eye on the actual number of connections to the server, make sure that the server is set to give more priority to background tasks (Start/Run/sysdm.cpl /Advanced tab/Performance Settings/Advanced tab).

You could do a lot worse than upgrade the Server/Workstation to a server O/S which would also have the advantage of centralising security. If you are only using it as a file server and want to save some money, check out FreeNas.

optomistic

In my experience, 45C is not a very high CPU temp. I have run UD agent for many years 24/7 on several computers at higher temps than yours. I don't think that any rare problems are down to the UD Agent.

Thanks Optimist. Hadn't thought of that (security checking twice)! The server machine is also used as a desktop occasionally but not very much.

I'm not totally Computer literate when it comes to networks / servers, so don't really understand what you mean by "You could do a lot worse than upgrade the Server/Workstation to a server O/S".

I'll ask my network guru, although you guys are probably more knowledgeable :-)

SC

Basically, a workstation has an operating system (eg Win 2K or Win XP) that is designed to run local programs, and a server has an operating system (eg Windows Server 2003) which is designed to serve files and run central programs.

Each can to some extent do the work of the other, but not as well.

Ah, that explains an awful lot. Beautifully put :-)

In outlook express all my emails in the inbox had the latest email at the top and all the older ones in order,you could locate a email just by looking at the date when it arrived,but they are all out of order and jumbled up and takes ages to find a email that has just come in,is there a way to correct this again and also just had a look at my sent items and they are the same.

Mega...

Double click at the top of the dates list.

Respect to the spec man :-)

Been trying to get a router onto my system, my technical support keep coming up with the same suggestions;
All seemingly wired up and ready to log in, but then when I open up "Obtain an IP address automatically" and key the number into my browser - firefox or IE - they try to go online, which of course they can't as the router is not configured; instead of connecting to the router. Catch 22; and I bin 'catchin' it all day yesterday!! Needless to say the 'login to the router' window never appears............. Tried switching off my security but no different.

Should have said router is tp-link 642 and operating system windows 2000 pro.

Thanks if anyone can help???

Not sure if you've got the instructions muddled up perhaps. The first step is to configure the router. You need to disable any modem you previously had (in IE select 'never dial' in Internet Options/Connections) and check the Ethernet connection is enabled in Control Panel/Network and Dialup connections.

Then you would key the local address of the router into a browser. The initial local address is set in the router and so should be in the instructions. It is normally 192.168.0.1 so in that case you would type into a browser

http://192.168.0.1

After doing that and setting username and password in the router, it will attempt to connect to the internet.

Thanks Kayak, you are talking to a total illiterate here!

Do I need my router to be wired up and/or switched on before I type the 192 address in (I have tried it both on and off line and there is nothing that ever comes up except server has been reset) and where do i type it?
I can't get through to the username and password window for the router on my PC.

My PC is not wireless enabled and so has a phone sized connector into the modem as well as one ethernet cable from the pc into the modem, but the router has space only for ethernet cables, maybe I am wiring up wrong? I use ADSL for broadband

Sorry to be such a total dumbo, lucky I wasn't in your class at school!!

I think the configuration address of that router is http://192.168.1.1

They do vary a bit and looking at the user manual online that seems to be correct.

http://www.tp-link.com/products/product_des.asp?id=3

It has to be powered up and connected to your main PC with the ethernet cable supplied plugged into an ethernet socket on your PC (network adapter socket).


The default seems to be 'admin' for username and password.

The details of what to do should all be in your user guide.

Some of the choices you have to make depend on your ISP.

OK I'm a little confused here hawick, if I understand you correctly, before all this you had an ADSL modem connected to the PC both by a modem cable and by an ethernet cable? Now you want to add a wireless router (which is not an ADSL modem) to share the main connection?

If that is so, (a) what is the existing modem and (b) do you have one or two ethernet ports at the back of your PC?

You're a star for bearing with me! -:)

I have just tried these procedures and I seem to be back at base!

My modem has an ethernet cable into the tower, and a smaller phone cable from the modem into the box. There is only one ethernet cable point on my tower, so i was told to put it into the router, and one from the router back to the modem.

And though the IP addresses come up in 'obtain an IP address, I cannot then log on to the router, instead I get a warning message about multiple gateways???