Winger300

I dont think my problem is due to the power supply, as i have tried it on a Celeron system with BX motherboard and 300W PSU and also a PII system using an LX motherboard and 300W psu and both machines do the same with XP, but using Windows 2000 they are fine. The problem is most definately WindowsXP and the modem drivers.

Im using a USB ADSL modem (Alcatel SpeedTouch) The only drivers i can use are PPP over ATM (PPPoA), when i try to setup NAT and the wizard lists my network adapters, then USB modem isnt listed. However the modem does have a Network Adapters entry in Device manager. Any ideas how i can set NAT up to use my USB modem? It works using ICS btw, but i would prefer to use NAT.

Well i took the card back, and got it replaced for a Dlink one, now transfers are 7MB/s in both directions!

Im using a Realtek 8139C NIC, does this explain things?

I just removed AD and installed it again, im not sure what ive done differently this time, but it looks like its all working properly as it should. Thanks

I've no idea what im doing wrong with the dns setup though!

What ive done now is set up DHCP to give clients my isp's DNS server ip. This allows the connecting computers Internet access, but i guess then i loose caching, recursion and internal DNS data. I would still like to know how i enable my server to allow forwarders. Thanks for the help so far though.

If i remove the DNS network component and re-install it, it reports that it cannot set the root hints in the registry. When i first configure it, i can set the Forwarders, but then once ive closed the console and opened it again, its all ghosted. Any ideas what to do?

I've read most of that and im still unsure of what to do. Im told "Forwarders are not available becuase this is a root server" but cannot find how i change the server.

It wont let me set that becuase i have it set as a root dns server. So i suppose the question to be asked is how do i change that?

Im using ICS to share my broadband connection, im using a USB DSL modem. Ive setup AD, DHCP and DNS, but clients cannot resolve external names, but can ping external IP addresses. Im guessing i need to setup another DNS server for external name resolution and one for internal network names. How do i do this?

Im running version 1.4 which is the latest available on their website. I still get the BSOD after about 15hours use, sometimes less, sometimes longer. Its annoying because i want to be able to leave my system unattended for days.

Well it would be good for a 10mb network, but im running at 100mb!

Im using a no-name 5Port 100mb Switch, two machines connected running at 100mb, and an uplink to a 10mb hub with some others connected. My problem now is that file transfers using ftp between machines only operates at around 1000k/s which is only a tenth of what it should be. Any ideas what the problem is? Im using IIS to host the ftp site on one of the machines.

Turns out it was a duff network card all along