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Making Win98 work on the internet
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Making Win98 work on the internet
In message , Alan
Justice writes: [] It's not that I'm married to Win98. What's the latest OS I can update to on this machine? And how much will it help? With 256M of RAM, I'd not try XP. Can you not up the RAM? I only have dial-up. DSL has just been introduced to my area, but I can't get it through Earthlink, only the phone company (Frontier, which bought Verizon). I need to keep Earthlink because of my business web site. I take it from those names that you're in the USA, so I don't know if wireless internet (i. e. via the mobile 'phone network) is available where you are. (It's available, though somewhat expensive, in most of the UK.) I do have a more recent computer (XP, 2.8 GHz, 2 GB SD RAM) that I use for image processing, but since I finally got a digital camera, I may want to update that and replace my internet computer with it. Hmm, I suppose your digital camera has oodles of megapixels, and you're intending to use it at maximum resolution all the time )-:. As to whether your old 500MHz machine or the one you describe above will be better, I think it all depends on whether you can get better than dialup. Obviously the 2.8 GHz machine will be better, even with the overhead of XP, but in practice, it is going to be the dialup that limits your use: I would say that, to a first approximation, the web part of the internet is more or less unusable via dialup these days - a sufficient proportion of web designers design assuming everyone has broadband. If you do have to stick with dialup, I'd say the 500MHz machine is capable of supporting most of the internet that it's possible for you to access. I'd get the last Firefox (I think it's 2.0.0.20) that runs on '98 without Kernelex. Do you have a USB stick that works with your 98 machine? If not, get the universal USB driver - either NUSB or the Italian solution (which seems better to me). With a good browser (Firefox or one of the others - anything but IE), and USB that works, _I_ think your 500MHz/W98 machine will be capable of doing all you need while you're limited to dialup. Once you get a faster link, then the XP machine will be more than sufficient (I'm typing this on a 1.6GHz XP netbook) and the '98 machine won't, but if you buy something new, it'll be able to - and quite possibly better at - doing all the internet you could want _as well as_ the image manipulation you'd be buying it for. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf If you believe in telekinesis, raise my right hand |
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Making Win98 work on the internet
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
: either NUSB or the Italian solution (which seems better to me). What is it? I want to check it out. |
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Making Win98 work on the internet
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
: With a good browser (Firefox or one of the others - anything but IE), and USB that works, _I_ think your 500MHz/W98 machine will be capable of doing all you need while you're limited to dialup. Once you get a faster link, then the XP machine will be more than sufficient It is logical to think that, but I'd go with the faster machine for internet, even on dialup, which can cause delays, timeouts, and older net software might more likely seize up in that condition, and hose the OS session too. I used to see this a lot when I had dial-up, and broadband made the 550 MHz AMD machine I used then, seem faster and better, mainly because it didn't have umpteen timers waiting for connections to complete every time I used a browser. Optimising this stuff baked noodles to the point where many web sites set up to handle the details for people. Lots of registry tweaks... It's much easier to use WXP on a fast machine to get that kind of performance without the tweaking. Even W98 will work better there, for same reason, speed of both line, and machine, but WXP will give more choices with less effort, for an internet-only machine. (It's not just net access that suffers from slight restrictions on pipeline speed, XviD playback does too. If the flow were smooth and perfectly regulated, it would be find on a slow machine but it isn't smooth, if it peaks, clpis, it broadens the spike of peak demand, slows more, causes backlog, and eventually seizes. A good analogy is throwing a ball down a pipe. If the pipe is big enough, it sails effortlessly out the other end, but if it hits the side ONCE, it bounces ever more rapidly, repeatedly, quickly losing speed and stalling. On a slow line, a fast machine is about as much use as throwing that ball harder down a narrow pipe. It just stalls more dramatically. |
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Making Win98 work on the internet
Lostgallifreyan wrote in
: On a slow line, a fast machine is about as much use as throwing that ball harder down a narrow pipe. It just stalls more dramatically. Which might contradict what I said about choosing the faster machine! But I said that because it will run WXP and other newer net software, and more likely have better flow regulation and connection handling in general. |
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Making Win98 work on the internet (now USB)
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Lostgallifreyan writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in : either NUSB or the Italian solution (which seems better to me). What is it? I want to check it out. Three ways to get USB (sticks, anyway - not sure about other devices) working on '98. 1. The driver that comes with the stick (hardly ever now!), or from the website of the manufacturer. Even assuming you can get hold of it, IME it's pot luck as to whether it will actually work. I presume that, if it does work, it's going to be quite good. 2. The universal USB driver, often called NUSB. There are several iterations - probably go for the latest for a first try, but some people have found earlier ones work better for them. The instructions for it say to remove any other USB drivers you may have before installing it; I don't know if it is always the case, but certainly when I tried it _without_ uninstalling other drivers (I was reluctant to remove something that was working!), it screwed things up right royally, and I had to work quite hard to get it back to a working condition (IIRR - it was some while ago - even ERU/ERD didn't restore things). On the other hand, I've built a system from new using it (actually as part of the "Windows 98 tenth anniversary edition"), and that worked like a dream: it recognised any stick plugged into it, much as XP does. Both of the above methods advise installing the software before connecting the device. Method 3 does not: to quote what someone else said ("glee" in the post I've found and am copying from): "It is not installed beforehand like some other generic drivers; rather you point to it when Windows first detects the inserted thumb drive, as you can see from the pictures on the web pages, even if you cannot read Italian." 3. "The Italian method" (or job if you like!), for obvious reason. You get the file, and unzip it to anywhere, obviously I'd recommend an empty folder, and then point the system to that folder _when you insert a previously-unknown drive and it asks for a driver for it_. The site is http://www.wintricks.it/faq/usbpen98.html - it's a series of linked pages leading you through the process (though it's fairly obvious to anyone with Windows driver loading experience), with each page having a link near the bottom to the next one: the actual downlaod is at the end of the sixth and last page (and is http://www.wintricks.it/download/wtgenusb.zip, though I'd at least glance through the pages if I were you). I must say I haven't actually used it; I just liked the idea of only installing a driver, when needed, rather than running an installer beforehand, in the hope that it'll work, and not do lots of other things. The files in the .zip are only .inf and so on, the sort of thing that needs to be there as a driver - no .exe files. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf If it's not on fire, it's a software problem. |
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Making Win98 work on the internet
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Lostgallifreyan writes: [] (It's not just net access that suffers from slight restrictions on pipeline speed, XviD playback does too. If the flow were smooth and perfectly regulated, it would be find on a slow machine but it isn't smooth, if it peaks, clpis, it broadens the spike of peak demand, slows more, causes backlog, and eventually seizes. A good analogy is throwing a ball down a pipe. If the pipe is big enough, it sails effortlessly out the other end, but if it hits the side ONCE, it bounces ever more rapidly, repeatedly, quickly losing speed and stalling. On a slow line, a fast machine is about as much use as throwing that ball harder down a narrow pipe. It just stalls more dramatically. Good analogy! When I said "net access" I was being sloppy - I meant anything that involves getting something over the internet, not just browser use. If you're playing an XviD file from a remote source, even if via ftp, streaming, or similar, I'd agree. (Ideally you'd need a way of telling the player to buffer a large proportion of the file before it starts playing, but many players don't have that option, or it isn't obvious anyway. Or just download the whole file before starting, but that may conceivably not always be possible.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The main and the most glorious achievement of television is that it is killing the art of conversation. If we think of the type of conversation television is helping to kill, our gratitude must be undying. (George Mikes, "How to be Inimitable" [1960].) |
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Making Win98 work on the internet (now USB)
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
Three ways to get USB working on '98. If you have a motherboard based on the Intel 845 chipset (and possibly other 8xx chips) then look he http://www.tacktech.com/news.cfm?sub...troller-driver 10.07.2002 - OrangeWare/Intel® USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller driver Under the Driver File Details for the Intel USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller on my win-98 system, I have 3 files listed: - iusbehci.sys (USB 2.0 enhanced host controller driver, Orangeware) - iusb2hub.sys (USB 2.0 hub driver, Orangeware Corp, version 1.1.0.2) I generally find that I can plug in a new USB thumb drive without the system complaining too much. It seems to always find what it's looking for. I have a few Kingston Data Traveller drives, as well as some "Super Talent" 8 and 16 gb thumb drives that just work when I plug them in. Here's a direct download link: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...g&DwnldID=5498 |
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Making Win98 work on the internet (now USB)
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Lostgallifreyan writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in : either NUSB or the Italian solution (which seems better to me). What is it? I want to check it out. Three ways to get USB (sticks, anyway - not sure about other devices) working on '98. 1. The driver that comes with the stick (hardly ever now!), or from the website of the manufacturer. Even assuming you can get hold of it, IME it's pot luck as to whether it will actually work. I presume that, if it does work, it's going to be quite good. 2. The universal USB driver, often called NUSB. There are several iterations - probably go for the latest for a first try, but some people have found earlier ones work better for them. The instructions for it say to remove any other USB drivers you may have before installing it; (at least for the newer, 3.x versions, although it may have been "recommended" for the older versions too - see my comments below): I don't know if it is always the case, but certainly when I tried it _without_ uninstalling other drivers (I was reluctant to remove something that was working!), it screwed things up right royally, and I had to work quite hard to get it back to a working condition (IIRR - it was some while ago - even ERU/ERD didn't restore things). On the other hand, I've built a system from new using it (actually as part of the "Windows 98 tenth anniversary edition"), and that worked like a dream: it recognised any stick plugged into it, much as XP does. In just checking over my notes, I seem to recall that if you stuck with the older 2.x nusb versions (like nusb23e.exe), instead of the newer 3.x versions, you just may be able to get away with NOT having to uninstall all the USB drivers first. And that's what I did on my old Win98SE system - I used the older nusb23e driver, and did NOT uninstall all the USB drivers first (as is now strongly recommended, or perhaps even required, in the later versions). And it worked fine for me! So, I'd recommend he first make a backup image or clone of his system, and then try it with the older version, and he just might save a lot of hassle, like I did. If it doesn't work out in his case, he can always roll back the image. Both of the above methods advise installing the software before connecting the device. Method 3 does not: to quote what someone else said ("glee" in the post I've found and am copying from): "It is not installed beforehand like some other generic drivers; rather you point to it when Windows first detects the inserted thumb drive, as you can see from the pictures on the web pages, even if you cannot read Italian." snip |
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Making Win98 work on the internet (now USB)
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
: 3. "The Italian method" (or job if you like!) I did but I could have done without that wretched song. I think NUSB wins there though. That's because it's not a 'driver' as such, in the sense of one applied at specific need. It really is the core subsystem, coherent and complete. It's got files from W2K and WME, usually works natively but for Via machines needs USBHUB2.SYS from the Via driver set. Apart from that it basically is true machine-independent support. Installing beforehand for that isn't a disadvantage because it's logically the same as expecting to install the OS before running programs. At first I thought of this as a weakness, when it broke an existing OS, till I realised that this was only because I'd already customised my OS before safe recognition. But in any base install, NUSB ought to go in. Other methods might be better for times when fast access is needed for some specific device where other trused, specific drivers, aren't getting at it. |
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