Windows XP Home (maximum) connections problem.

[Guest]

Hi all.

We have an office with 7-8 PCs running XP Home edition. These PCs are all
connected to a Linksys router to Road Runner. Pretty standard stuff. One PC
("server") has an application called Gopher that we use to track recruits.
Every other PC is an end user PC that will access this database, each others
shared folders, Internet, etc. We have been getting employees unable to
access Gopher and even get to the Internet lately. No errors, just hangs.

My question is that I read a lot about the 5 maximum simultaneous
connections that XP home can have. Does this sound like something that may be
happening?

We are all file sharing with each other, using the standard MSHOME domain
name.

I dont want to pay to upgrade all the computers to PRO unless I am pretty
sure that is what the issue is.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Bob Willard]

Hi all.

We have an office with 7-8 PCs running XP Home edition. These PCs are all
connected to a Linksys router to Road Runner. Pretty standard stuff. One PC
("server") has an application called Gopher that we use to track recruits.
Every other PC is an end user PC that will access this database, each others
shared folders, Internet, etc. We have been getting employees unable to
access Gopher and even get to the Internet lately. No errors, just hangs.

My question is that I read a lot about the 5 maximum simultaneous
connections that XP home can have. Does this sound like something that may be
happening?

We are all file sharing with each other, using the standard MSHOME domain
name.

I dont want to pay to upgrade all the computers to PRO unless I am pretty
sure that is what the issue is.

Thanks in advance.

XP PRO is limited to 10 concurrent inbound connections; XP HE is limited to 5.

You can help yourself by upgrading the one PC that is the file server from
XP HE to XP PRO.

When your network grows from 10 client PCs to 11 (not counting the file
serving PC), it will be time to upgrade the file server from XP PRO to
a real server OS.

 

[Guest]

Would that affect people from not being able to connect to the internet as
well? I am assuming since each other is shearing each other, the 6th person
is SOL no matter what?

Thanks much.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hi all.

We have an office with 7-8 PCs running XP Home edition. These PCs are all
connected to a Linksys router to Road Runner. Pretty standard stuff. One PC
("server") has an application called Gopher that we use to track recruits.
Every other PC is an end user PC that will access this database, each others
shared folders, Internet, etc. We have been getting employees unable to
access Gopher and even get to the Internet lately. No errors, just hangs.

My question is that I read a lot about the 5 maximum simultaneous
connections that XP home can have. Does this sound like something that may be
happening?

We are all file sharing with each other, using the standard MSHOME domain
name.

I dont want to pay to upgrade all the computers to PRO unless I am pretty
sure that is what the issue is.

Thanks in advance.

XP Home's limit of 5 concurrent inbound connections could cause
problems when too many computers try to access the Gopher database.
However, I wouldn't expect it to make the other computers hang -- they
should give an error message saying that access is denied.

That limit has nothing to do with accessing the Internet.
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[Bob Willard]

Would that affect people from not being able to connect to the internet as
well? I am assuming since each other is shearing each other, the 6th person
is SOL no matter what?

Thanks much.


:

There is no limit on the number of PCs that can be on a LAN or that can be
in a workgroup. PCs do not share each other, they share specific resources
(e.g., files).

And the limit on inbound connections does not affect the ability of clients
to access the 'net.