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Re: Slow LAN speed

Posted on 55 minutes ago

Got my network issues sorted, I had to toggle the Windows 11 network type to private rather than public. Presumably this changed on it's own when I replaced my old router. Anyway I get some amazing LAN speeds to my P4 running Windows ME. 🤣

Re: Slow LAN speed

Posted on 2025-02-04, 00:35

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Stupid question, but do you have SMB 1.0 Client installed on 11? Indeed I do! I was able to access a share on that ME PC about a month ago to transfer a bunch of ISO files. It wouldn't surprise me if some Win 11 update is the issue. EDIT - that or maybe the router change. I'm not going to mess …

Re: Slow LAN speed

Posted on 2025-02-03, 21:08

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

100Mbps is 12.5MBps. With overhead (OS stuff, hand shaking, etc) is always much less. 12.5MBps is 12,500KBps and you are 6,700KBps (6.7MBps) so about 1/2 of max which is typical. I have a gigabit nic in my P4 that runs ME and it's network transfer speed is similar. I was transferring files at …

Re: Slow LAN speed

Posted on 2025-02-02, 22:54

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a gigabit nic in my P4 that runs ME and it's network transfer speed is similar.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-07, 23:39

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Always cool when you buy something you didn't know it exists. Just got a Socket 7 Pentium 133MMX, apparently it was released as a mobile CPU only, which probably explains the lower Vcore. Living happy here with the other members of the family. Neat! Does the other side look the same as most MMX …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-06, 20:55

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Grabbed this ASUS SP97-V (https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asus-sp97-v) for $30 sold as “For parts”. It’s probably one of the fastest socket 7 (non-AGP) boards out there. It performs as well as a T2P4 (maybe even slightly better). It’s north bridge and south bridge are in a single chip for …

Re: Comanche 4 demo benchmark

Posted on 2024-12-23, 21:42

by pete8475

in Marvin \ Video

Just for laughs I ran it on the XP machine and needless to say it ran very well. 214.96FPS XP system specs: Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 Asus P8P67 LE 4GB 1866 MHZ DDR3 (2x2GB) Geforce GTX970 Creative X-Fi 240GB Kingston SSD

Re: Comanche 4 demo benchmark

Posted on 2024-12-23, 21:20

by pete8475

in Marvin \ Video

Oooh interesting I have a P4 system, if this game runs in 9X I'll run it in a couple of minutes. If not my oldest XP machine is a Xeon with a GTX970 lol EDIT - it works! This game looks really interesting, I'm going to play around with the demo tonight and probably try and find the full version at …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-12-23, 11:33

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, this is a funny one. Technically this is a "Bought this retro hardware..." but it was actually around 5 years ago. I bought a bunch of PCs from someone and then stored them because I was moving at the time. One was really well equipped with a clean Soyo SY-5EMA+ v1.1 ("ETEQ" chipset... …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2024-12-19, 22:24

by pete8475

in Milliways

I got a dedicated sound card and open-back headphones previous week, a Creative Sound BlasterX AE-5 Plus and Beyerdynamic MMX 330 Pro . Sound card was ordered from local web shop, headphones were ordered directly from manufacturer from Germany, they were giving away speakerphone Beyerdynamic Space …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-12-18, 23:12

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The build quality of the case itself seems very good. Great find 👍🏻. Yeah. I was surprised by just how heavy it is, and am more than happy to have something that can actually house the dual PPro board I found recently as well. I think that's an Inwin brand case, their old beige cases like that are …

Re: Can't start the editor for HOMM II under DOSBOX

Posted on 2024-12-17, 02:09

by pete8475

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Isn't the editor a windows program? I haven't used it in ages and I can't remember for sure one way or the other.

Re: How much is safe to overclock Tualatin 1.4ghz?

Posted on 2024-12-06, 20:54

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi to all. As perhaps someone saw my old posts here on forum its been little bit more then 2 months that i got myself into retro Pentium 3 computer and so far i having lot of fun playing old games. Currently i using ATI 9600 Pro 128mb as my GPU, and for some games like Wizardry 8 i sometimes get …

Re: How much is safe to overclock Tualatin 1.4ghz?

Posted on 2024-12-06, 02:38

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi to all. As perhaps someone saw my old posts here on forum its been little bit more then 2 months that i got myself into retro Pentium 3 computer and so far i having lot of fun playing old games. Currently i using ATI 9600 Pro 128mb as my GPU, and for some games like Wizardry 8 i sometimes get …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-24, 22:44

by pete8475

in Milliways

Bought another Crucial CT4000P3SSD8 (4TB M.2 SSD) from amazon since the price finally became reasonable again. It was delivered on a Sunday too which is nice.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-23, 15:32

by pete8475

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Grabbed this Chieftec Dragon (Antec). It has some scuff marks but what do you expect for an old case. It comes with a Gigabyte GA-M52S-S3P with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ in it but I'm going to swap it with a Asus Maximus II Formula with some OCZ Reaper HPC Edition DDR2 and running a Q9650. 1.webp 2. …

Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2024-11-20, 23:06

by pete8475

in Release Announcements

twiz11 wrote on 2024-11-20, 21:43: AOL brought back the netscape browser in name only as a chromium fork https://isp.netscape.com/ https://aol.sentrybay.com/deploy/aol.php?lice … sdeflnk00000002 Oh wow, I didn't realize AOL was still a thing.

Re: Voodoo5 M5800

Posted on 2024-11-17, 20:18

by pete8475

in Marvin \ Video

GemCookie wrote on 2024-11-17, 08:37: I'm sure these projects are helping with the global supply of Voodoo5 cards. These are being made from unused chips, no voodoo 5's have been harmed.