SP2??

Discussion in 'polls' started by Cochise, Aug 15, 2004.

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  1. bigc73542

    bigc73542 Retired Moderator

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    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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  2. BlueZannetti

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    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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    bigc73542 Retired Moderator

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    I didn't mention that my linksys wireless never missed a beat, all was recognized.
     
  4. q1aqza

    q1aqza Registered Member

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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.
     
  5. BlueZannetti

    BlueZannetti Registered Member

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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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