a half working network?

This has confused me to no end for several days now. I
have a 2 computer network using a router in the middle.
One computer is XP and the other (with the problem) is 98
SE.

So here is the confusion. i can connect to AOL using a
TCP connection with no problem. I can share files between
the 2 computers with no problem. i however can not connect
to the internet with out some great delay, as in 10-15
minutes using IE6 with SP1. (I have a cable connection)
Also if I print from the 98 machine to a network printer
on the XP it will spool for many minutes (again being 10-
15 minutes easy, this may be even more) and the print.

I have removed all of the network componants in the 98
machine and reinstalled. I have uninstalled the printer on
both machines and reinstalled. I have "pinged" each
computer from the other computer with no apparent problems.

All of this worked correctly for hmmm a year now and it
just stopped working. the only thing that I can think of
that has been done to either system at or about the time i
started getting this complication would be the "blaster"
patch that was installed from Microsoft on the XP machine.

any assistance would be wonderful. thanks in advance for
your time.

I'd suspect a hardware problem - bad NIC, bad cable, possibly bad router.

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"Paul Savidge" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> This has confused me to no end for several days now. I
> have a 2 computer network using a router in the middle.
> One computer is XP and the other (with the problem) is 98
> SE.
>
> So here is the confusion. i can connect to AOL using a
> TCP connection with no problem. I can share files between
> the 2 computers with no problem. i however can not connect
> to the internet with out some great delay, as in 10-15
> minutes using IE6 with SP1. (I have a cable connection)
> Also if I print from the 98 machine to a network printer
> on the XP it will spool for many minutes (again being 10-
> 15 minutes easy, this may be even more) and the print.
>
> I have removed all of the network componants in the 98
> machine and reinstalled. I have uninstalled the printer on
> both machines and reinstalled. I have "pinged" each
> computer from the other computer with no apparent problems.
>
> All of this worked correctly for hmmm a year now and it
> just stopped working. the only thing that I can think of
> that has been done to either system at or about the time i
> started getting this complication would be the "blaster"
> patch that was installed from Microsoft on the XP machine.
>
> any assistance would be wonderful. thanks in advance for
> your time.