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Network Neighborhood Slow to Show

I have a network on Windows 98, using TCP/IP and NetBieu.
It is all on a hub and I have 14 computers and 4 network printers.

On some of the computers, when I load up Windows, I can access other computers on the network immediately.

On others, one or two computers show up right away and others later.

On others the network doesn't show at all for a while.

All are on a 192.168.0.whatever with subnet 255.255.255.0

No domain server, no gateway. Can someone tell me why I have this trouble and what I can do to speed up and see all computers.
Thank you.
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stevenlewis

static ip addresses? try an lmhosts file on each
http://www.realcomputerguy.com/lmhosts.htm
this usually happens when a "slow" browser is selected.
M$ desided to make each w9x to become a master browser when another one does not respond.
Switch off the "MasterBrowser auto" key in the registry for you slow (ancient hardware) computers.
Don't know if there're are click&type tools to do it, I only know regedit.

As usual, you need to reboot :-)))
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1) Update the NIC drivers on the slow computers.

2) Remove all ununsed protocols ( Netbios, IPX etc ).

3)http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/cs/dhcp/
May be causing problem on win 98 First edition.

I hope this helps !

oops, missed 2)
Thanks
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