Task Manager / Network annoyance

yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
edited February 2005 in Science & Tech
Hi everyone,
I just reformatted not too long ago and now in the Windows XP Task Manager under the networking tab it shows:

Adapter Name=Network Bridge
Link Speed= 2 Gbps (in network properties it says 2.7 or 2.8)

but anyway, before I reformatted this used to say 100 Mb. Does anyone know how I could change this back? I have never tweaked this to my knowledge both this reformat and the last one, they just are different for some reason it seems.

In Network properties it shows 4 connections:

LAN or High-Speed Internet --- 1394 Connection, 1394 Connection 2
Network Bridge --- Network Bridge, Local Area Connection

Somehow it is looking at the Network Bridge instead of the Local Area Connection. The weird part, is that I don't think the Network Bridge connection was even there on the last reformat, just this one.

Two other notes to add. Before installing sp2 (install cd comes with XP Pro sp1a) I couldn't get the advanced feature to turn the firewall on, I was confused at this. And the other thing is that when I boot the computer and the desktop loads, the little network icon loads in the bottom right and sits there about 20 or a few more seconds and then disappears, during the time it is there I can't connect to the internet, but it is always fine right afterwards.




So... I guess there are a lot of things, can anyone help me out? :scratch:

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2005
    What MB do you have? Does it have two Network jacks built in, or one built in and a PCI card?

    My MSI K8N has both a Realtek and an nVidia LAN chip built in. Both can be bridged together, and both are capable of 1GB bandwidth. If you have something similar that would explain the 2gbps figure.

    I haven't gotten around to figuring out if bridging the two would actually do me any good, since I assume I'd need a seperate network feed to make it do anything.

    I'd go into network properties and see if you can "unbridge" the two. In your case it might be bridging the LAN connection with one of the 1394 connections.

    For what it's worth, I had a similar annoyance with the system not wanting to connect right away, not to mention the irritating "A network cable is unplugged" icon in my system tray. Since I only use the nVidia LAN port I disabled the Realtek and the problem cleared up.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited February 2005
    I tried fiddling with it, but its finicky and disabling one connection, like the one I want disabled, disabled the whole internet. I 'think' I have the 100 Mb part solved, it says that right now, BUT we will see after the restart, as I've done this or something like this before only for it to go back to what it was.

    One other annoyance I forgot is that I can't see the task manager icon in the bottom right when I minimize the window. I don't know why it does this and I can't find any options that work, I believe there was an option for this, but it doesn't work right now. I liked this because sometimes I'd glance down and ball park the cpu usage when I was checking the usage.

    Oh, almost forgot. My motherboard is Asus P4C800 E-Deluxe with the onboard 1 Gb ethernet. That is the only ethernet plug on/in the computer. It is funny that it says 2.6 2.7 or 2.8 Gb not just 2 when I check the details, does this always happen?
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2005
    Sounds like it must be bridged to the 1394 Adaptor. Is that the one you tried to disable?

    Try disabling it (the 1394 Adaptor) in Device Manager. Then make a new Network Connection using just the onboard LAN adapter and tell Windows to just use that.

    Good Luck! :)
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited February 2005
    Wow, this time I got that to work, and now there is no wait upon start up either. I still can't see the task manager in the taskbar (next to the clock, I always confuse the name) tray on the bottom right.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2005
    D00D wrote:
    Wow, this time I got that to work, and now there is no wait upon start up either.
    I've found Windows Networking to be a weird deal sometimes. Sometimes you take the same logical steps over and over, suddenly it clicks, and you're left asking yourself "Why didn't it work the first time?". :mullet:

    I still can't see the task manager in the taskbar (next to the clock, I always confuse the name) tray on the bottom right.
    As far as the "taskbar tray" having a confusing name, I agree. It used to be called the System Tray; now it's the "Notification Area". Who knows what it'll be called with the next version of Windows.

    Could the icon be in the hidden group? You can change how that stuff works by right-clicking the Start Button, left-click "Properties, click the Taskbar tab, then click Customize at the bottom in the Notification Area section.
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