Aegeas

I could be wrong butI believe you are going to have to "tunnel" across the 'net to get it to appear as a LAN. Now VPN is a cranky beyatch so you are going to have to do some serious matching in regards to your hardware supporting VPN (routers,etc).

Okay. I have an answer. Netopia's 6161 router can aggregate xDSL lines providing that the ISp you are connecting to supports multilink PPP. Pretty cool huh? You could effectively have 768/3.0Mbps from 2 ADSL lines for 100.00 per month. Blow me away. Better than a T-1 down and most of it up for 1/10th the price. As for integrating the two network I still haven't got an answer yet. Anyone have any ideas how it's going to behave? My current theory is that since they are routers that they are going to only try to assign DHCP addresses to those clients directly behind them, and that providing I have each router assigning a different series of IPs there shouldn't be a problem. One of you network freaks has to have tried this. Drop me an email if you have.

Okay guys. Here is a cool topic and an interesting issue. We will shortly have 2 Adsl lines coming into the same office. Is there a concentrator or router that can aggregate 2 DSL lines into one Pipeline? Unless we can multilink the DSL lines we will wind up with 2 private IP groups. Each behind a DSL router that is issuing DHCP addresses to their own group. Can we put a link between the two groups that will not cause DHCP and gateway confusion? Someone has to have tried this...

I must know! All of the Win 9X and NT utilities are bombing out with kernel errors. I have got to be able to step this cache size up!

Anyone else having problems with Everquest on a Geforce system? In particular when I am in NON-full screen mode where I can see the buttons for skills and can see the symbol for my class on the left side, both side panels start flashing every two minutes or so. It flashes for about 10 seconds and then stops. IT'S MAKING ME NUTZ.

I have got to know if the method of installing DirectX 8 works as detailed in the thread in the Games Forum. Has anyone here tried it?

I just downloaded and installed the new patch. The patch DOES NOT fix starting either a dedicated or interactive multiplayer game on Win2k. Most often it just exits back to the desktop. PLAY HARD.

Okay, This driver set rocks. I now have D3D, full motion video in a window, OpenGl, and powerstrip almost works completely again! It still won't let powerstrip alter any opengl settings (or D3D for that matter). Load times have reduced but there seems to be a marked problem. When starting graphics intensive applications I sometimes get a tiny window around my mouse pointer and the game takes forever to load. This is rare though. If I exit the application and return it is fixed. It appears to be an irq issue. Use this driver set.

The file name was... 2k66sgo2 I believe. Check the asus ftp site and then sort the directory by date last modified. Make sure you get the appropriate version i.e. SDRAM or SGRAM. The file, during setup will ask you if you would like to upgrade to "Side-Band Addressing" on your card. Be certain to answer yes. Once this is done the bios version you see when you are booting will have the letters "SBA" after the bios revision number. Good luck.

There is a new version out that enables Side-band addressing for your agp. This is for win9x/NT/2k. When you run the executable you may receive an error about a vxd file. If this occurs then try flashing the card in a win9x machine. Under 2k this helped my OPENGL performance quite a bit. Load times, etc improved. D3D still doesnt work as this is not driver fix.

Has anyone tried the Guillemot drivers on any other manufacturers cards? If so, which display modes/attributes are available with them?

Has anyone gotten D3D or full-motion video in a window to function under the new Asus 3.79 beta drivers under Win2k? Also, has anyone noticed extremely long load times for OpenGl games? I think the texture memory located in the cards is being inefficiently used as it seems to take forever to get into half-life or similar Opengl games. ABit BP-6 Dual 550 Celerons 2940U2W IBM Ultrastar Drives MX300 Sound Asus Pure 6600 SGRAM 3com Nic

CAUTION. I am fairly certain these drivers are a hacked version of the latest 8830 chipset drivers and not an official beta. These drivers fairly well mixed things up over here, in particular it seems that they had some problems playing fair on the PCI bus. Reinstall of WIN2k and then applying the WindowsUpdate Site patches BEFORE installing any games seems to have cured all of my problems. I used this order to get what has so far proven to be a flawless installation of Win2k. 1. Basic install 2. video drivers 3. All patches from Windows Update Site. 4. Reboot 5. Install games. 6. Play till dawn and it screams. Abit Bp-6 Dual celerons @550 Asus SGRAM Geforce256 3.79 drivers Adaptec 2940U2W 2 U2W IBM Deskstars Diamond MX300 standard 8830 chipset drivers 3com NIC [This message has been edited by Aegeas (edited 07 March 2000).]

No. You shouldn't have bought the HP. HP is being very obnoxious about their win2k support, especially with scanners. The real issue is that for the most part HP is selling you a software package, not a hardware item. The hardware is incidental. For NT (read business users) they want you to buy a business level scanner or printer with the same features and resolutions as the high end consumer models but with a slightly different software package. If they don't support the low-end stuff with driver updates then they force NT/2000 users to fork over for the pricey hardware because of perceived "business-class" functionality that in reality is no different than good quality consumer-grade goods. [This message has been edited by Aegeas (edited 07 March 2000).]

Your problem probably lies in the NT core of win2k. NT has a network resource resolution pattern that requires it search for certain items in a set series (WINS, DNS, etc). Now the actual timeout length for requesting attention from these network resources is variable. I am certain a registry tweak guide will surface that will let us alter exactly how long it searches for a wins or master browser list from your local network. Just an example because I do not know the list it follows before it is certain it has resolved all the resources on the network.