Ok, I have a laptop and a desktop hooked together via a 10/100 ethernet lan, and I am having a problem while playing half-life and tribes, the laptop keeps freazing for a few seconds to couple of minutes! It doesn't do this at the lan at my school (the network settings are the same either place), my desktop is fine, unless the laptop is hosting, then the desktop will just make me freeze in place! Anybody have any ideas, anybody else this happen to?

It's doesn't freeze when you hook your laptop to the School's LAN? Is that what your saying? How much RAM in that laptop?

quote:Originally posted by blackice:
It's doesn't freeze when you hook your laptop to the School's LAN? Is that what your saying? How much RAM in that laptop?

Yeah that's what i'm saying. It freezes at home but not on the school lan! I have no clue to why it does this!
here are the two systems--

Desktop (HOST)-
Win98 2nd Edition
700athlon
256mb ram
two ibm hd (20gb, 45gb, both 7200)
Ethernet SMC 10/100 1200tx
GeForce 2 mx with a Voodoo 2
SB live x-gamer

Laptop (Client and a dell inspiron)-
Win98 2nd edition
600 pentium 3
96mb ram
4.8 gb hd (no clue about anything else, it's a school laptop)
Xircom RealPort Cardbus ethernet 10/100+56k
ATI rage mobility 2xagp 8mb ram
some ESS audio card, not really sure.

Are you using a hub or a crossover cable? Are you using the same cable in both instances?
Do you have problems with other programs or just Halflife and Tribes?

quote:Originally posted by Yig42:
Are you using a hub or a crossover cable? Are you using the same cable in both instances?
Do you have problems with other programs or just Halflife and Tribes?

I am using a crossover cable, and I probably would, but those are the only 3D games I play over my lan, and I don't really play 2D games via my lan that much either, infact never!

You might want to check out if your cable is anygood. It is much more effective to use a hub or a switch for data transfers, because they control the information being swapped back and forth and tend to limit collisions. Basically an information buffer. Verify your IP and Subnet Mask to see if you are not using the same IP (ie 192.168.0.2) and also that the Subnet Mask is the same (ie 255.255.255.0). Your IP's should be the same except for the last number.

For the high transfer rates needed to run Half-life and tribes, I definately recommend a hub or switch. It pretty much sounds like connection problem/protocal problem.

Do file transfers work out fine?

quote:Originally posted by Yig42:
You might want to check out if your cable is anygood. It is much more effective to use a hub or a switch for data transfers, because they control the information being swapped back and forth and tend to limit collisions. Basically an information buffer. Verify your IP and Subnet Mask to see if you are not using the same IP (ie 192.168.0.2) and also that the Subnet Mask is the same (ie 255.255.255.0). Your IP's should be the same except for the last number.

For the high transfer rates needed to run Half-life and tribes, I definately recommend a hub or switch. It pretty much sounds like connection problem/protocal problem.

Do file transfers work out fine?

I thought of that too, but I am no idiot so the ip and all that are fine, I already checked. And here's proof! When I hook up my dad's laptop it works fine, and neither of them (laptop or desktop) freeze! Sometimes file transfers go really slow for a while but then they seem to get back up to speed, I really think it's my laptop that has the problem.