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I fail to see how removing DHCP support from a client would increase the
connection speed, unless the connection fails altogether.  This would
happen if the client is unable to renew the DHCP lease.  If this is the
case, I would investigate the cause of this occurrence.  BTW, there would
be messages on the client if it were unable to renew the lease.

As for the original problem, I believe the issue here is a driver problem.
 It sounds like it may have a memory leak and over time and use the problem
gets so bad, and the throughput so bad that a reboot is the only cure.  I
have no idea what the current state of drivers are on Windows 3.x.  To be
honest, I can't even believe that any business if still running on Windows
3.x.  Before people jump all over me, this is akin to having your 3000
running MPE/XL  3.0.

When you dropped your ISA card in favor of a PCI card, you must have loaded
new drivers to support that card, since Windows 3.x knows nothing about PCI
devices without new drivers.  These drivers would have accompanied the
card.  You should visit the 3Com web site and see if they have new 3.x
drivers for that card.

Your ultimate solution is of course, to upgrade to Windows 95/98 or better
yet, to NT 4.0.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863  (281) 288-7438         Fax: (281) 355-6879
denys at hicomp.com                             www.hicomp.com



-----Original Message-----
From:   PAULA R. REICHL [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, 17 March, 1999 10:30 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Fwd: Re: New NIC causes problems

We are having the same problem with a couple of our connections.  The PCs
are running NT and once in a while they just lose it--their connection is
very slow and then they have trouble reconnecting.

I took them off of our DHCP server and gave them a permanent IP address
and it 'seems' to have fixed the problem-so far.  It been several weeks
and all if well.  See if that helps.  If you find another solution, please
let me know.

[log in to unmask] writes:
>Hello,
>
>I recently "upgraded" the network card in my PC from an Accton MPX
>NE2000-compatible ISA card to a 3Com 3C905 PCI card, and I've run into a
>little bug that I can't figure out.
>
>Now, every once in a while, my NS/VT connection to the 3K gets *really*
>slow.  The only things affected are:  block mode transfers, downloads
>with the terminal emulator (Minisoft), and Qedit for Windows.  Otherwise,
>if I'm just doing command-prompt stuff, everything seems a-ok.
>
>The problem is especially bothersome because it's intermittent.
>Everything seems to work fine and then - boom! - block mode screen
>redraws get *s*l*o*w* and downloads don't work at all.  I can't tie the
>problem down to any other apps I'm running -- sometimes the termulator is
>the only thing going.  To clear the problem, I reboot and try again.
>
>Is it perhaps becuase I'm now loading both 802.2 and 802.3 frame types?
>That's the only thing I've changed, besides the card.  And, in case it
>matters, we're still on Win 3.11.
>
>
>TIA,
>
>Art Frank
>Manager of Information Systems
>OHS Foundation
>[log in to unmask]
>(503) 220-8320
>



Paula R. Reichl
Neenah Joint School District
(920)751-6831
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