heres the deal
my bro has a pc running win xp and i have a mac g4 400 os 9.1 and _we share a cable connection. i dont know how he setup the network but all he did was throw me up a cable and i just plugged it into my ethernet hole changed my tcp/ip to ethernet>dhcp and my internet was fast. ok this was a year ago and i didnt have no problems until this past month where my internet connection is really slow. its not just my browser because my aim is slow and my aol doesnt even connect. but his computer is still fast. now hes hasnt been around for me to ask him but in his room he has a cable modem and i think thats connected to the ethernet hub and my cable line is coming from that to my comp. i tried everything. trashed my tcp/ip prefs, unplugged the cable modem, even reformatted. sometimes i would just switch my cable line and put it into the other ethernet hole in the hub and restart and i would get fast internet for like 5 minutes then it gets really slow again. the only other time i would get fast internet is sometimes when my bro comes home and uses his comp but that will only last a few minutes. ahhh this is really fustrating. i dont think its the cable signal because my bro gets fast internet. i dont thinks its soemthing to do with a corrupt tcp/ip because i formatted and same problem. i dont think its my bros comp settings because he told me he hasnt chnaged anything. maybe its my ethernet card or something? but then it was working for over a year so how can it be my ethenet card. does anyone know what else i can try. i have asked so many ppl posted on many forums and no one knows. i know my writing is bad but i hope you understand my problem.
heres my network info if it helps
Network overview
Ethernet built-in ____Link: ____up ____Speed: ____100 Mbps ____Duplex: ____full ____
Modem
_________Name: ____Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) Internal 56K
_________Protocol: ____V.90
_________Version: ____V2.200-V90
_________Status: ____Information gathered.
Open Transport
____Installed: ____Yes
____Active: ____Yes
____Version: ____2.6
AppleTalk
_________Installed: ____Yes
_________Active: ____Yes
_________Version: ____60
_________File sharing: ____is off
_________Default AppleTalk zone: ____Not available
_________Active network port(s): ____Ethernet built-in
_________This network: ____65280
_________This node: ____128
_________Router: ____<not available>
_________Hardware Address: ____00.30.65.4E.B4.B6
TCP/IP
_________Installed: ____Yes
_________Active: ____Yes
_________Version: ____2.6
_________Personal Web Sharing: ____is off
_________Netmask: ____
_________IP address: ____
_________Default gateway address: ____
_________Domain: ____
_________Name server address: ____
(left out my ip address and netmask etc just in case someone can hack into my comp haha)
my bro has a pc running win xp and i have a mac g4 400 os 9.1 and _we share a cable connection. i dont know how he setup the network but all he did was throw me up a cable and i just plugged it into my ethernet hole changed my tcp/ip to ethernet>dhcp and my internet was fast. ok this was a year ago and i didnt have no problems until this past month where my internet connection is really slow. its not just my browser because my aim is slow and my aol doesnt even connect. but his computer is still fast. now hes hasnt been around for me to ask him but in his room he has a cable modem and i think thats connected to the ethernet hub and my cable line is coming from that to my comp. i tried everything. trashed my tcp/ip prefs, unplugged the cable modem, even reformatted. sometimes i would just switch my cable line and put it into the other ethernet hole in the hub and restart and i would get fast internet for like 5 minutes then it gets really slow again. the only other time i would get fast internet is sometimes when my bro comes home and uses his comp but that will only last a few minutes. ahhh this is really fustrating. i dont think its the cable signal because my bro gets fast internet. i dont thinks its soemthing to do with a corrupt tcp/ip because i formatted and same problem. i dont think its my bros comp settings because he told me he hasnt chnaged anything. maybe its my ethernet card or something? but then it was working for over a year so how can it be my ethenet card. does anyone know what else i can try. i have asked so many ppl posted on many forums and no one knows. i know my writing is bad but i hope you understand my problem.
heres my network info if it helps
Network overview
Ethernet built-in ____Link: ____up ____Speed: ____100 Mbps ____Duplex: ____full ____
Modem
_________Name: ____Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) Internal 56K
_________Protocol: ____V.90
_________Version: ____V2.200-V90
_________Status: ____Information gathered.
Open Transport
____Installed: ____Yes
____Active: ____Yes
____Version: ____2.6
AppleTalk
_________Installed: ____Yes
_________Active: ____Yes
_________Version: ____60
_________File sharing: ____is off
_________Default AppleTalk zone: ____Not available
_________Active network port(s): ____Ethernet built-in
_________This network: ____65280
_________This node: ____128
_________Router: ____<not available>
_________Hardware Address: ____00.30.65.4E.B4.B6
TCP/IP
_________Installed: ____Yes
_________Active: ____Yes
_________Version: ____2.6
_________Personal Web Sharing: ____is off
_________Netmask: ____
_________IP address: ____
_________Default gateway address: ____
_________Domain: ____
_________Name server address: ____
(left out my ip address and netmask etc just in case someone can hack into my comp haha)