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The OP most likely meant 400Mbps, as that's what most of them say if you
right click and select "status" in the "Network Connections" window.
To the OP - for a fact, mine shows, "Connected" and "400Mbps" as the speed,
but I know for a fact there is nothing physically connected to either of my
1394 (FireWire) ports on back. Also, the Windows firewall be default will
be on the connections, as it is considered a network connection, personally
I disable the firewall as the few times I do use the connection to connect
to the Maxtor one touch I have on my Linux machine, it does slow down the
xfer speeds. Although since I figured out how to setup SAMBA on my Linux
machine, I've not even used that - so go figure, most of my 1394 capable
peripherals are also USB 2.0 capable, and well, I have more USB ports than
1394 ports.
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"Donald L McDaniel" <invalid@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:26:04 -0400, Husky <cbminfo@toast.net> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 18:43:40 -0500, "Vanguard"
>><vanguard.code@comcastNIX.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>"Husky" <cbminfo@toast.net> wrote in message
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>>>>I had the machine into the shop for days. One day I stepped in, and
>>>>they had
>>>> something they said was the Internet connection [not the 56k modem]
>>>> plugged in.
>>>> I never saw it used, just connected.
>>>>
>>>> Thinking about this since all they had was a wire was why can't I do
>>>> that
>>>> instead of this 56k modem ?
>>>>
>>>> They said something about I can if I use road runner.
>>>> What are they talking about ?
>>>> It shows my 1394 connection this moment as active. @ 400 bps.
>>>>
>>>> Before I took it to the shop, my LAN and 1394 were both disabled.
>>>> I'm thinking this 1394 being enabled may be what's slowing my modem
>>>> down now.
>>>>
>>>> If that's true I'd just as soon have the 1394 disabled again.
>>>>
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>>>
>>>It doesn't hurt to have the other network connectoids enabled as long as
>>>you do not attach the devices specified within them to a networking
>>>device. You only need one connectoid to be enabled (unless you are
>>>configuring your host to act as a gateway, but which is highly unlikely
>>>if you are talking about analog 56K modems for dial-up access).
>>>
>>>What you are seeing under the Network Connections applet in Control
>>>Panel are the connectoids. These are network *definitions*, not the
>>>actual devices used by them (i.e., those aren't devices but
>>>definitions). They define which protocols are bound to which device:
>>>you get to pick the protocols and to which device they are bound. For
>>>example, and since I had both a NIC (network interface card) for
>>>Ethernet LAN access and an analog 56K modem, I had a free dial-up
>>>provider (under 10 hours was free) which I kept for backup to provide
>>>e-mail service should my broadband provider go dead (either no
>>>connectivity or problems with their e-mail service). Normally only the
>>>LAN connectoid was enabled (it bound to the NIC). If I had to switch, I
>>>disabled the LAN connectoid and enabled the dial-up connectoid (which
>>>was bound to the analog 56K modem). When my ISP was back up for
>>>broadband access, I'd disable the dial-up connectoid and enable the LAN
>>>connectoid (for the NIC specified in it that was connected to their
>>>cable modem).
>>>
>>>Normally you should only have one network connectoid enabled. I doubt
>>>you know what is a gateway or how to set one up, and that's about the
>>>only time that I can think of where you would want to have more than one
>>>connectoid enabled at a time. It doesn't hurt to have multiple
>>>connectoids enabled if, say, only one of them was actually bound to a
>>>networking device. Most users of the Firewire port use them for digital
>>>cameras. Disabling the IEEE-1394 networking connectoid won't disable
>>>the Firewire port. The shop used the Firewire port because they had a
>>>Firewire hub, switch, or broadband modem to which they could connect to
>>>give them vastly superior download speed to retrieve any drivers,
>>>patches, or utilities that they needed to install on your computer.
>>>They forgot to disable it but then normally leaving it enabled doesn't
>>>cause a problem. Mine has been disabled ever since I got the computer
>>>but then I never attach any network devices to a Firewire port.
>>>
>>>You can disable the IEEE-1394 connectoid, especially since you don't
>>>have anything attached to a Firewire port. However, and because you had
>>>nothing connected to it, enabling or disabling it won't affect your
>>>speed using the LAN connectoid (which normally uses a NIC for an
>>>Ethernet connection) or the speed of a dial-up connectoid (for your
>>>analog 56K modem).
>>>
>>>Go ahead and disable the IEEE-1394 (Firewire) network connectoid. You
>>>won't lose Internet connectivity (as long as your dial-up connectoid is
>>>enabled) but it isn't the cause of your perceived slowdown, either. Are
>>>you using the Firewire port at all for networking, like providing two
>>>network interfaces for ICS (Internet Connection Service) where the
>>>Firewire port is used for networking amongst your intranetwork hosts and
>>>the dial-up modem is used to share the Internet access (i.e., you are
>>>using your host as a gateway via ICS to share the Internet access
>>>amongst several hosts at home)?
>>
>>
>>
>>>You can disable the IEEE-1394 connectoid, especially since you don't
>>>have anything attached to a Firewire port. However, and because you had
>>>nothing connected to it, enabling or disabling it won't affect your
>>>speed using the LAN connectoid (which normally uses a NIC for an
>>>Ethernet connection) or the speed of a dial-up connectoid (for your
>>>analog 56K modem).
>>
>>Well that was totally confusing till I got to this. Actually the
>>connection
>>says connected. Where all but my 2 modem connections were either connected
>>or
>>disconnected. Which is where the confusion is. If there's a 1394 connected
>>@
>>400 bps. I'd sure like to see some of that speed.
>
> What friggin speed? Compared to even an analog modem, 400bps is
> EXTREMELY SLOW, not "fast". Consider this: an analog modem normally
> connects at between 40,000bps and 50,000bps. That is "FORTY THOUSAND
> bps" which is a factor of over a hundred times greater than the speed
> of your 1394 connection.
>
>>
>>I disabled it and it now shows disabled.
>>something above about them having a 'The shop used the Firewire port
>>because
>>they had a Firewire hub, switch, or broadband modem'
>>
>>In the back of my machine it was just a wire. And when I asked could I get
>>DSL
>>by plugging in that wire, they said I could if I had roadrunner.
>>Roadrunner,
>>far as I know is an ISP. What would that have to do with plugging a wire
>>into
>>my machine bypassing the modem ?
>
> See my other post to you about the requirements of receiving and using
> a DSL signal. Many ISPs are offering DSL very cheaply, with either
> the phone company or the ISP providing free or very cheap installation
> and DSL modem kits.
>
>>Don't get so technical if you choose to reply. I haven't even looked into
>>anything but modems ever.
>>I started with a 300 baud external, and now use a 56k internal.
>
> "300 baud" is "three hundred bits per second (bps)". "56kbps" is
> 56,000 (and change) bits per second. The "k" in the "kbps" stands for
> "kilo", which is "one thousand" translated from Greek.
>
> Donald L McDaniel
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