Laptop cable connection

[the staring frogs of Southern Iberia]

Have recently acquired a Dell inspiron 2500 from sister in law. She
used it for work for her company. It has win 2000 professional service pack
4 for the OS. It's a PIII processor. HD is 20gig with about 16 gig free. RAM
is 256. Access to the internet is through an Actiontec 82559-based Mini PCE
Ethernet Adapter (10/100). Above info is provided by Belarc Adviser.
When I hook this unit up to my cable connection at home the speed
is deplorable.
It's worse than dialup. If a page does connect it hardly ever finishes
loading. It's not the cable since I'm presently using the same cable on my
other laptop to access these NG's.
The desktop flies using the same connection, my primary laptop's connection
speed is fine but this new laptop just slugs along. It's just the internet
speed I'm concerned with not the unconnected speed I get just using it for
non surfing.
I'm not real familiar with win 2000 so I'm not quite sure where to
start looking to speed up this beast.

 

[the staring frogs of Southern Iberia]

Have checked the event log for the win 2000 laptop and found a
couple of items in it that may help the above post.
There is a warning for Dhcp that states "your computer was unable
to automatically configure the IP parameters for the Network Card with the
network address 0020E06FB497.The following error occured during
configuration. The parameter is incorrect."
Right above the previous warning is an Error message that states
"the server could not bind to the transport\Device\NetbiosSmb because
another computer on the network has the same name. The server could not
start."
Either of these any help?

 

[Tom Lake]

Right above the previous warning is an Error message that states

"the server could not bind to the transport\Device\NetbiosSmb because
another computer on the network has the same name. The server could not
start."
Either of these any help?

Sure. Change the name of the laptop so it doesn't conflict with any other
computer on the network.

Tom Lake