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#51
August 21st, 2004, 05:02 PM
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Re: SP2??
I installed the it network version of sp2 and it seems so far to run flawlessly. so far I like it, it installed with no problems. I installed it with my av running and it recognized my mcafee 7.03.6000. As mentioned in this thread you really need to defrag after sp2 install.
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August 21st, 2004, 05:49 PM
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Re: SP2??
I just got finished converting three systems over. Two are on a Netgear based 802.11a wireless setup. The only way I could get connectivity was to disabled the WEP encryption and go with an open system. It also seems to have problems if I try to use the native Windows network configurator - have to disable that and use the HA311 configuration utility. At least these are the kids systems, and I do have MAC address based access control still on, but sheesh, this is progress?
From a few things I've read in debugging this problem and trying various work arounds (remove/reinstall hardware, driver software, etc.), it seems like this update may be a rocky road for a number of wireless connections. Blue |
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August 21st, 2004, 06:18 PM
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I didn't mention that my linksys wireless never missed a beat, all was recognized.
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August 21st, 2004, 06:30 PM
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Further to my post 42 on this thread and Alec's reply suggested another defrag, I checked this and yes the SP2 install had caused a substantial amount of fragmentation - 33% I'd defragged before the upgrade and was very surpised to to see this occur. Anyway, a defrag has brought the startup time back down closer to what it was before SP2. I've had worse fragmentations and never seen such a slowdown.
It all seems to be running quite sweet now. @BlueZannetti, I'm running Netgear 802.11b wireless and it has been working absolutley fine with 128 bit encryption on. I'm still using the Netgear proprietary wireless driver rather than the XP one - I've read the XP one can cause problems with Netgear wireless adapter. |
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August 21st, 2004, 06:40 PM
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I have a bit of a note into Netgear. Not sure what they'd do. The drivers haven't been updated since basically the product release a couple of years ago and the product itself is obsolete. I really dont want to run open, maybe its time for an upgrade, but I'll see what Netgear comes up with first.
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