Re: Wan issue

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From: "G" <NoMail@NoSpam>


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| Ok I took out the BEFRS81 router and went to Staples
| and found a Netgear switch model FS116 that has 16 ports.
| This gave me plenty of ports since we now have 9 computers
| counting our plotter server node. I plugged all of our nodes into
| the Netgear switch and then uplinked it with one cable to the
| LAN-1 port of the Zyxel, Prestige 900 series ISP provided
| cable router/modem. Then things started to get really confusing.
| Which blew my mind since the Netgear switch is about as generic
| as you can get. There is no CD setup no nothing, just plug and play.
| Anyhow I turned everything off. The booted the router and the
| switch and then all the nodes. I went to each node and configured
| them all the same with DHCP and no firewall enabled. I then got
| results I have never seen before. For the past two years we've been
| running 5 nodes and plot server with no problem. Now various nodes
| can see various other nodes but only 2 other nodes can be seen by
| each peer. with the exception of the plotter server it can see 3 other
| nodes. We have 3 nodes that can also get out to the internet in addition
| to seeing 2 other nodes. The rest of the nodes cannot get email or
| get onto the net. I checked everything and rebooted until I was blue
| in the face and I could not figure what was wrong. So I called a
| professional network diagnostic company. They won't show up
| till tomorrow but they told me over the phone that Microsoft has
| been including updates that hold WinXP home edition to seeing
| only two to 3 nodes. They said for as many nodes as we have we
| would have to purchase WinXP pro. and possibly WinServer
| running on a dedicated server machine. Is this for real ?
| If this is true are there third party network server software any
| cheaper?
|

There are limitations to use WinXP HE over Pro.
I don't know all of them and what he is saying could be true.

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Dave
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