Can i safely upgrade my ME to XP Pro? Running P3 with 128MB ram. Computer is really used to get emails and small amount of surfing?

Please Help, My desktop has ME, my laptop has XP w/sp2, I need to set up a wireless network for my laptop so it will access the internet thru the DSL connectiion on the dexktop. The desktop has a Netgear FA311 Etherner Adapter, and the laptop has 802.11 mini pci wireless adapter, and VIA Rhine...

I've recently had my broadband connection upgraded to ADSLMax ( up to 8mbps). I run 3 PCs off a Netgear DG834G wireless router/modem. Two are running on Windows XP and 1 runs on WinME. If I run one or both XP machines there is no problem getting a synch speed of over 3.5 mbps but if I boot up the...

Not simply a DNS problem. Won't ping any IP addresses outside the computer itself. 127.0.0.1 is OK. The local IP address is OK. That is all...... Can't ping the DNS servers or any other numerical / IP address.... Have removed TCP/IP Have removed Windows Communications .... and reinstalled of...

I have a PC running Win Me,which is connected to a NetGear wireless router. The second PC running XP Home with a wirless adapter that can share the cable internet connection without any problems. I am trying to setup the WinME PC as a server to share a printer and a scanner. When I run Network...

Having recently acquired some older computers I am now setting up a P2P network. I am trying to determine why my ME machince does not seem able to connect to my Win2K machine. All machines: -New installation of appropriate OS's -No apparent hardware issues -Using thin-net 10base2 -File and printer...

Dear subscribers, I would be very grateful if You could help me out with my question. Yesterday I installed at my parents' place a DSL-connection on their Celeron computer with ME on it. They are quite happy with this version of windows so they do not feel like upgrading. The connection works very...

Hallo, I want to observe the traffic between my browser and the Internet in detail. Although Ethereal 10.4 and WinPcap_3_1_beta_3 seams to be installed correctly under WinMe the message list remains empty. How can I find out what could be the reason for this behaviour? Thanks for your help!

Calling all PC Gurus! I am trying to network 2 computers: 1 with 98se and 1 with me. I thought that i would be able to just connect them together with an ethernet cable and run the setup wizard and bam it would work as easy as pie. But no, it's not working out just yet and any of you think you...

Hi guys, I have a desktop pc (running windows ME) connected to a laptop via an ethernet cable. The Laptop has a broadband connection and I am running internet connection sharing. My question is, will WinME hang if it can not renew its address from the DHCP server, on the laptop? Will any NIC...

Hi all I visited a client today with a network of 4 PCs configured as follows: 1st PC: PC with internet gateway running WindowsXP Pro and fixed IP 192.168.0.1 2nd PC:

I have a WinMe pc (configured as ICS host, btw) with a peer-to-peer XP. Internet sharing works fine. I can access XP's files from the WInMe fine too. But the WinMe doesn't show up on the XP's "View Workgroup Computers". The workgroup name IS the same (MSHOME) on both computers. What could be the...

I have a home network where my ME box successfully pings the XP box, But the XP box cannot ping the ME BOX. 1. Is this preventing me from sharing files and printers? 2. If so, then I believe that the Me box is not configured properly. My Me box has the following network components: Client for...

Back a few years ago, I bought a Linksys BEFSR41 cable router when I first got Comcast. I got frustrated with trying to set it up and gave up. I want to re-try again. Is that router still good to use or is it obsolete by now? Thanks

As a volunteer I run a peer to peer network where I've had no trouble in the past with Win95, Win98, WinXp, Mac OSX, but Windows Me has be stumped. First and foremost, my most used Windows networking command is the NET family, particularly Net View & Net Use. On both 9x & Xp I can run it with...

I can ping any address successfully but cannot get to the sites???? I have tried releasing and renewing the ipconfig info repeatedly - it renews the "0 etherenet adapter" but not the "1 ethernet adapter" even though I specify "all" and I have disabled the "o etherenet adapter" (it's firewire which...

I am having a bizarre problem... or at least one I haven't seen before. I have just installed WinME on a laptop. I downloaded and installed the latest driver for my 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet card and that worked fine. The card appears as a NIC and with no errors. I went in to the Network section of...

I have a compaq presario, with WinME, that probably has never been updated. I can ping yahoo's ip address, but cannot get there to surf? I get "cannot find server". It did occur to me that it is a DNS problem but when I check winipcfg, everything looks in order? Can anyone give me some...

I have a DSL modem and a Linksys wireless router. I have my desktop running ME hooked up to the router with a Ethernet cable. I have 2 machines running XP ( 1 laptop and 1 desktop) that connect with wireless cards. All 3 machines can access the internet without a problem. The 2 XP machines...

I have a Windows ME m/c that I want to connect to Windows XP via a parallel cable. I open Control Panel on the ME m/c and double-click the Network icon, but nothing happens. Has anyone else had this? How can I get the Network window to come up? I have tried setting up DCC, but on the ME m/c I get...