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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (16760)	2/23/2001 3:23:19 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110645

cheeky personally, i would never take what one man says (be he a columnist or not) as gospel, but i would then look closer at that particular area of concern to see if there are others who have had similar bad luck with winme and networking. :) mark

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (16760)	2/23/2001 3:43:22 PM
From: tanstfl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

I'm running a five computer network at home using WinME and a 3COM card(PCI 3C590). It replaced a WIn2K Server that I sold. It's multi-honed with the 3com on the home network and an Intel card on the cable modem. Its running coax from the 3Com card to a couple of HP Jetdirect printers and a 3com hub. The hub has a PC and a Proxim cordless gateway plugged into it and then three laptops with Proxim wireless PC cards connecting through the Cordless Gateway. It's worked flawlessly. (The Win2k box had a 3com 3C905B-TX, not that that's germane). However, I am just enabling file and print sharing instead of netbeui and each machine runs the microsoft client. I have on occasion not seen another machine when browsing. In that case, I ping the machine I can't see and the browse usually works. (Another possibility is that they have different workgroups assigned. I do that a lot inadvertently because I move the machines around a lot between home and the office.) Also, I'm running DHCP off the WinME machine because of the Internet connection sharing (Which may create more "mutual awareness" for the browse). The other machines, are all running win98 or Win2k since I've found I don't like all that WinME "does for me". Steve