First post, by PKFreeZZy
Hello everyone,
I'm currently trying to figure out why my retro PC's network speed is being limited. It has a beefy enough network card installed, one with the Intel PRO 100 chipset, which can transfer data as fast as 100Mb/s.
My ISP is providing us PPPoE gigabit ethernet with 300Mbps and 150Mbps peak download and upload speeds, respectively. I know PPPoE wasn't a thing back in the days of Win 9x, so I'm using a router to convert it into a LAN signal which definitely does work fine with it at the cost of being limited to Megabit only.
However, when I try to download a file on it, mostly for testing purposes, it never transfers faster than only a few tens, or in the best case, a few hundred Kilobytes per second. I'm assuming this has to do with Internet Explorer 5.5 being extremely outdated. however even on a newer browser, it won't accelerate past 1 megabyte per second. I'm not intending to heavily utilize the internet on this machine; just decided to ask because I saw an old post on here regarding network speed and didn't quite find an answer in the replies.
My Windows 98 PC: Slot 1 Pentium III 600 (Katmai) | 256MB PC133 SDRAM | 64MB Leadtek WinFast GeForce2 Pro | Creative SB16 CT2230 | Intel PRO/100+ with Alert on LAN* | 18.64GB Seagate ST320011A | Corsair CX430 | ASUS P2B Rev. 1.04